As pathologist, I am a key player in the team for diagnostics and treatment of colorectal cancer. I am the expert within the national population screening program, and am involved in development of national guidelines. My research focuses on progression of colorectal cancer

Iris Nagtegaal's main research interest focuses on personalized pathology of colorectal cancer: improving patients prognosis by providing evidence based diagnosis and basis for treatment. She studies the processes of tumor development, local recurrence, metastases and tumor regression, using a combination of traditional and molecular pathology, combined with clinical data to detect novel prognostic and predictive factors.In addition,optimal use of national databases provide new and relevant data for further studies.