Ruud Pijnappel

Full Professor

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Biography

Ruud Pijnappel studied Medicine at the University of Amsterdam. He did his residency in Radiology with the OLVG, Amsterdam. After finalizing his PhD thesis on the diagnosis of nonpalpable breast lesions (2002, Utrecht), he held several positions with the Breast Radiology department of the Martini hospital (Groningen) and the Dutch Reference Centre for Screening (LCRB, Nijmegen). From 2011 to 2015 he was president of the Dutch College of Breast Imaging (DCBI). In 2012 he joined the Radiology staff of the UMC Utrecht; in 2015 he was appointed both Professor of Breast Radiology at the UMC Utrecht, and CEO of the Dutch Expert Centre for Screening.

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rpijnap2@umcutrecht.nl

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Tailoring radiotherapy in cT1–2N1 breast cancer to nodal response on primary chemotherapy (RAPCHEM: BOOG 2010-03) Annefleur J.W. Mauritz, Linda de Munck, Janine M. Simons, Janneke Verloop, Thijs van Dalen, Paula H.M. Elkhuizen, Astrid Scholten, Ruud M.A. Houben, A. Elise van Leeuwen-Stok, Sabine C. Linn, Ruud M. Pijnappel, Philip M.P. Poortmans, Luc J.A. Strobbe, Jelle Wesseling, Adri C. Voogd, Liesbeth J. Boersma
The Lancet Oncology, 2026, vol. 27, p.808-816

European consensus on pre-operative imaging in breast cancer developed jointly by EUSOBI, ESSO, ESP and ESTRO Julia Camps-Herrero, Roberto Lo Gullo, Alexandra Athanasiou, Michael Fuchsjaeger, Fiona J. Gilbert, Youlia Kirova, Christiane Kuhl, Ritse Mann, Francesco Meani, Federica Pediconi, Ruud Pijnappel, Cristina Saura, Tibor Tot, Katja Pinker
European Radiology, 2026, vol. 36, p.7806-7816

Development and internal validation of mammography feature-based prognostic models for distant recurrence-free survival of invasive breast cancer in a screening cohort Jim Peters, Bas B.L. Penning de Vries, Jos A.A.M. van Dijck, Ritse M. Mann, Nikita Moriakov, Jonas Teuwen, Nico Karssemeijer, Esther H. Lips, Jelle Wesseling, Merle M. van Leeuwen, Alexandra W. van den Belt-Dusebout, Carla H. van Gils, Ruud Pijnappel, Linda de Munck, Marja van Oirsouw, Ellen Verschuur, Sjoerd G. Elias, Mireille J.M. Broeders
NPJ breast cancer, 2026, vol. 12

Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy vs core needle biopsy Nisha Sharma, Sina Theis, Tobias Vogelmann, Ruud Pijnappel
European Radiology, 2026, vol. 36, p.4449–4466

ESR Essentials Elisabetta Giannotti, Marcella Pasculli, Tamar Sella, Chantal Van Ongeval, Magda Marcon, Mihai Lesaru, Julia Camps-Herrero, Ritse M. Mann, Federica Pediconi, Sophia Zackrisson, Thiemo Van Nijnatten, Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara, Francesco Sardanelli, Katja Pinker-Domenig, Ruud Pijnappel, Christiane K. Kuhl, Fleur Kilburn-Toppin, Thomas Helbich, Fiona J. Gilbert, Michael Fuchsjäger, Gabor Forrai, Eva M. Fallenberg, Paola Clauser, Pascal Baltzer, Alexandra Athanasiou,
European Radiology, 2025, vol. 36, p.837-849

The Screening Tomosynthesis Trial with Advanced Reader Methods (STREAM) Lindy Kregting, Daan van den Oever, Lian Pennings, Ruud Pijnappel, Nicolien van Ravesteyn, Ellen Verschuur, Marja van Oirsouw, Loes Dunning, Hans ‘t Mannetje, Ruben van Engen, Adriana Bluekens, Maartje Smid-Geirnaerdt, Cary van Landsveld-Verhoeven, Nehmat Houssami, Ioannis Sechopoulos, Mireille Broeders
European Radiology, 2025, vol. 35, p.3979-3986