Manon Spaander

Prof.dr Manon Spaander is a professor in early detection and screening of premalignant gastrointestinal diseases at the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her clinical and research focus on prevention and early detection of gastrointestinal cancers.

She contributed to the set-up of the Dutch bowel screening program and is still involved as national advisor for quality assurance of colonoscopy performance within the Dutch bowel screening program. She published many articles on colorectal cancer screening and was the first author of the review on ‘Young-onset colorectal cancer’ published in Nature Reviews in 2023.