Experience

Dr. Frederic Amant leads the Gynecologic Oncology department of the Cancer Institute and Medical Centers of the University of Amsterdam. He is a specialist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, co-founder of the European Network for Individualized Treatment of Endometrial Cancer (ENITEC), a working group within the European Society of Gynecologic Oncology (ESGO) and also of the International Network on Cancer, Infertility and Pregnancy (INCIP), recognized as a world authority on cancer in pregnancy. In addition, he founded the Patient Derived Tumor Xenograft Platform (Trace) at KU Leuven. 

He studied as a physician in Belgium and completed his specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Leuven, South Africa and Chile. He also completed a subspecialty in Gynecologic Oncology. He pioneered sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer and nerve sparing radical hysterectomy at UZ Leuven. He is professor at KU Leuven and the University of Amsterdam, visiting professor at the University of Bergen and honorary professor at the University of Pretoria. 

His well versed professional profile has positioned him as a reference in the treatment and research of this pathology, as he has participated in important studies on Endometrial Cancer as a source of valuable new data focusing on predictive markers of lymph node involvement and survival and his Amsterdam group supports the continuation of this collaboration in the framework of MOMATEC II. In that sense, he continues to develop ENITEC, which is the only uterus-focused research group worldwide.

  • Director of the Gynecologic Oncology research section at the University of Louvain. 
  • Director of the Medical Centers of the University of Amsterdam. 
  • Specialist at the Cancer Institute of the Netherlands in Amsterdam 
  • Founder and President of the International Network on Cancer, Infertility and Pregnancy" (INCIP) 
  • Founder of TRACE, tumor xenograft platform at KU Leuven 
  • Co-founder of ENITEC, the European Network for Individualized Treatment of Endometrial Cancer 
  • Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam 
  • Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway 
  • Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa 
  • Author of more than 400 publications  
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. University of Leuven, Belgium 
  • Specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Belgium, South Africa and Chile. 
  • Subspecialty in Gynecologic Oncology in Pretoria and Leuven. 
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