Femke Peters

Femke Peters is a radiation-oncologist, specialized in radiotherapy for gastro-intestinal cancers, especially rectal cancer, at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has defended her PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam in 2007 and completed her clinical training in Radiation Oncology at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden in 2014. She stayed as member of staff at Leiden University Medical Centre and combines patient care with clinical research. In 2019 she made the transfer to the Netherlands Cancer Institute. The clinical research is focused on rectal cancer, mostly organ preserving therapy. She is a part of the international STAR-TREC research team (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02945566) and involved in the radiotherapy coordination and analysis of the TESAR trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02371304). She is co-organiser of the World Rectal Conference on organ preserving perspectives (www.wrc2017.org).