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15 May 2022

Skåne University Hospital Cancer Centre accredited as Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Skåne University Hospital Cancer Centre (SUHCC) has been accredited as Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC) by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI).

11 May 2022

Smoking worsens prognosis for men with prostate cancer

Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but a higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden. The re...

13 Apr 2022

New precision technology for immunotherapy

In recent years, great advances have been made in the development of new successful immunotherapies to treat cancer. CAR T-cell therapy and antibody treatments are two types of tar...

12 Apr 2022

Metabolism found to regulate production of killer cells

In a recent study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers discovered that metabolic changes affect how blood cells are formed during embryonic development. They found a previou...

18 Mar 2022

Euroupean Research Council Consolidator grant to Alexander Pietras

7 Mar 2022

Göran Jönsson receives the Göran Gustafsson's prize in medicine for groundbreaking research in immunotherapy in cancer

Congratulations to Göran Jönsson who receives this year's Göran Gustafsson Prize in medicine. The prize is awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences and is awarded to younger resea...

17 Dec 2021

Organised prostate cancer testing is to provide more equal care

With 10,000 new cases a year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer type in Sweden. To create equal, accessible and high-quality prostate cancer care, Region Skåne has introduc...

20 Oct 2021

International admission for Advanced Cancer Biology course open

International admission for Advanced Cancer Biology VMFN29 (30 ECTS) at Lund University is now open!

30 Sep 2021

Anna Blom receives the 2021 Berzelius Medal for advances in medical chemistry

Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovat...

28 Jun 2021

Accreditation process to improve cancer care at Skåne University Hospital

Skåne University Hospital is in a process to establish a Comprehensive Cancer Centre.