Jeroen Derksen

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Jeroen Derksen obtained his Master’s degree in Nutritional and Molecular Physiology at the Wageningen University & Research in 2015. Since then, Jeroen is interested and involved in tertiary prevention research including lifestyle, body composition, diet and colorectal cancer outcomes at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He obtained a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the Utrecht University in 2018. From 2015 to 2020 he conducted his PhD research on (modifiable) lifestyle factors and colorectal cancer survivorship at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Dept. of Medical Oncology and the Dept. of Epidemiology, Julius Center. After completing his PhD, he continued at the Julius Center and is currently involved in a Regional collaboration that aims to deliver individualized dietary and physical activity recommendations to patients with colorectal cancer and to provide input for national dietary guidelines. This project is part of the “Regio Deal Foodvalley”, program "Nutrition and Health, from early start to the old day", workpackage "Nutrition and Oncology".

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hderkse2@umcutrecht.nl

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Recent publications

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Dietary and lifestyle inflammation scores in relation to colon cancer recurrence in subgroups of patients based on common molecular tumour characteristics E. Wesselink, D. E. Kok, K. C. Smit, A. S. van Lanen, J. W. G. Derksen, M. Koopman, M. Ligtenberg, I. D. Nagtegaal, P. D.M. Rombout, J. H.W. de Wilt, E. Kampman, A. M. May, F. J.B. van Duijnhoven
ESMO Gastrointestinal Oncology, 2025, vol. 9

Associations between degree of food processing and colorectal cancer risk in a large-scale European cohort Aline Al Nahas, Sahar Yammine Ghantous, Fernanda Morales Berstein, Emine Koc Cakmak, Carine Biessy, Genevieve Nicolas, Nathalie Kliemann, Jessica Blanco Lopez, Inarie Jacobs, Esther M. Gonzalez-Gil, Manon Cairat, Maria Gabriela Matias Pinho, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Fernanda Rauber, Eszter P. Vamos, Kiara Chang, Christopher Millett, Mathilde Touvier, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Gianluca Severi, Chloé Marques, Mariem Hajji, Alessandra Macciotta, Giovanna Masala, Mario Fordellone, Claudia Agnoli, Pilar Amiano, Marcela Guevara, Anne Tjønneland, Cecilie Kyrø, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Karel C. Smit, Matthias B. Schulze, Franziska Jannasch, Rudolf Kaaks, Verena Katzke, Tonje Braaten, Magritt Brustad, Guri Skeie, Rhea Harewood, Alicia Heath, Paolo Vineis, Elisabete Weiderpass, Pietro Ferrari, Marc J. Gunter, Inge Huybrechts
International Journal of Cancer, 2025, vol. 157, p.260-276

The nationwide Dietary Intake after Diagnosis and Colorectal Cancer Outcomes (PLCRC-PROTECT) cohort Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Karel C. Smit, Irene W.F. Hoeven, Femke P.C. Sijtsma, Miriam Koopman, Anne M. May
Cancer Epidemiology, 2025, vol. 94

Reply - Letter to the editor entitled “Letter to editor regarding Dietary and lifestyle inflammation scores in relation to colorectal cancer recurrence and all-cause mortality Evertine Wesselink, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, Anne Sophie van Lanen, Dieuwertje E. Kok, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Karel C. Smit, Johannes H.W. de Wilt, Miriam Koopman, Anne M. May, Ellen Kampman, Fränzel J.B. van Duijnhoven
Clinical Nutrition, 2025, vol. 44, p.5-6

Reply - Letter to the editor entitled “Letter to editor - Dietary and lifestyle inflammation scores in relation to colorectal cancer recurrence and all-cause mortality Evertine Wesselink, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, Anne Sophie van Lanen, Dieuwertje E. Kok, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Karel C. Smit, Johannes H.W. de Wilt, Miriam Koopman, Anne M. May, Ellen Kampman, Fränzel J.B. van Duijnhoven
Clinical Nutrition, 2024, vol. 43, p.341

Reply - Letter to the editor entitled "Oral health perspectives Evertine Wesselink, Hendriek C Boshuizen, Anne-Sophie van Lanen, Dieuwertje E Kok, Jeroen W G Derksen, Karel C Smit, Johannes H W de Wilt, Miriam Koopman, Anne M May, Ellen Kampman, Fränzel J B van Duijnhoven
Clinical Nutrition, 2024, vol. 43, p.65-66