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Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus University Hospital hosts the Danish Centre for Particle Therapy, the national proton facility opened in 2019; its oncology department under Jens Overgaard has run the DAHANCA head and neck trials that established accelerated fractionation and the radiosensitiser nimorazole.
Also called: AUHDanish Centre for Particle Therapy
Overview
Aarhus University Hospital hosts the Danish Centre for Particle Therapy, the country's national proton facility, which opened in 2019 with Varian ProBeam gantries and treats patients from across Denmark within randomised trials. Its experimental clinical oncology department under Jens Overgaard has run the DAHANCA head and neck cancer trials for decades, establishing accelerated fractionation and the hypoxic radiosensitiser nimorazole, and pioneered clinical hyperthermia with radiotherapy for melanoma. The hospital is a major transplant, urological cancer and gastrointestinal surgery centre, contributes to Danish Breast Cancer Group trials, and leads registry-based studies through Aarhus University's clinical epidemiology department.
Location
Aarhus, DK
Type
hospital · Aarhus University
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#135 · 34 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 34 from 17 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-17.
Matched to Aarhus University Hospital, including child institutions. 624 works · 4,497 citations · 81% open access · 7% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
Oncology works per year
1272022
1362023
1172024
1412025
1032026
Most works
- Signe Borgquist26 works
- Inge Marie Svane24 works
- Deirdre Cronin‐Fenton24 works
- Eva Ellebæk23 works
- Lene Hjerrild Iversen20 works
- Peter Christensen20 works
- Jakob Kirkegård19 works
- Lars Bastholt19 works
- Henrik Toft Sørensen18 works
- Peer Christiansen18 works
Most cited
- Danish Centre for Particle Therapy
- DAHANCA head and neck trials
- Hyperthermia and radiobiology
- Clinical epidemiology
- Urological oncology
Jens Overgaard
Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine - The Department of Oncology
Radiation oncologyHead and neck cancerTumour hypoxia
Pioneering radiation oncologist at Aarhus who led the DAHANCA trials on hypoxia modification and radiotherapy for head and neck cancer.
Thomas Balle Kristensen
Chief Executive Officer
Hospital managementHealth services
Chief Executive Officer of Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark's largest hospital and a major cancer treatment centre.
observationalClinical Cancer Research 2022225 citations
Circulating tumor DNA in stage III colorectal cancer, beyond minimal residual disease detection, toward assessment of adjuvant therapy efficacy and clinical behavior of recurrences
It reframes the blood test from a yes-or-no residual disease result into a measure of how well chemotherapy is working and how fast a relapse is coming, which is what an escalation trial would need.
observationalJAMA Oncology 2019806 citations
Analysis of plasma cell-free DNA by ultradeep sequencing in patients with stages I to III colorectal cancer
It showed that serial rather than single testing is what makes residual disease detection work, and it set the sampling schedule most later studies have used.
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