Patient consent
One of our main goals is to make our data available for scientific research. This scientific research must contribute to the improvement of treatment of cancer and must serve the public interest within the boundaries of privacy legislation. Only data that is required for the underlying research project may be requested.
Granting or withdrawing consent
Consent for storage and reuse of your data is voluntary. If you do give your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. You can do this by sending an email to privacy@hartwigmedicalfoundation.nl. If you withdraw your consent, your data will be removed from Hartwig Medical Foundation’s database and will no longer be used as described above. Withdrawing your consent will only affect the future use of your data. It is not possible to reverse any data disclosure.
We want to extract the maximum amount of information from the patient’s tumor. This DNA test is the The complete DNA test is the best available tool to extract the maximum amount of information from the patient’s tumor. We only need one tissue sample with sufficient tumor cells. We literally analyze the entire genome, including parts of the DNA that show mutations of which we don’t yet know the importance. This test is tumor-independent and future-proof. These are the two most important advantages of WGS.