Dr. Laura Mertens

Dr. Laura Mertens is an oncologic urologist working at the  Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her main expertise is the diagnosis and treatment of urothelial cancer, research on optimising bladder cancer imaging and prostate cancer early diagnosis. Laura combined medical studies with an international Honours Programme at Maastricht University, for which she completed internships in the UK, Iceland, Belgium, Hungary and Indonesia. 

Dr. Mertens’s career in urology started with a PhD in urology/surgical oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Her research focused on enhancing imaging and treatment of bladder cancer, including several international collaborations on the value of FDG-PET/CT for preoperative staging.

After her PhD, she followed her clinical training in urology in the Amsterdam region (Amsterdam UMC). Subsequently, Dr. Mertens successfully completed a clinical fellowship in oncological urology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. She is involved in the EAU Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Guidelines Panel, the Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Urothelial Cancer Working Group and the International Bladder Cancer Network.