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12 Aug 2024
Researchers receive prestigious ERC grant
Per Augustsson at LTH and Filipe Pereira at the Faculty of Medicine have been awarded Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in the first round of 2024.
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8 Aug 2024
Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma revealed
A new study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that tattoos could be a risk factor for cancer in the lymphatic system, or lymphoma. Now, the researchers underline the need for...
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24 Apr 2024
Donation to research on early hospital-based palliative care
The Department of Clinical Sciences, Medical Oncology, in Lund, one of six departments at the Faculty of Medicine and the largest at the Lund University, has received a significant...
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5 Oct 2023
Urinary bladder cancer research
UroCan – LUCC: translational cancer research network explains their research in a film.
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2 Oct 2023
Breast cancer study altered guidelines in Sweden
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are well-known breast cancer genes associated with a significantly increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. However, there are an additional eleven g...
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2 Oct 2023
AI-supported mammography screening is found to be safe
Mammography screening supported by artificial intelligence (AI) is a safe alternative to today’s conventional double reading by radiologists and can reduce heavy workloads for doct...
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25 Jun 2023
Kicking kidney cancer
What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers with software developers and AI researchers? Hopefully, with the help of AI, they can connect a multitude of data tha...
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21 May 2023
ERC grant for research on early detection of ovarian cancer
Christelle Prinz, Professor of Solid State Physics at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for her research into creating cost-effective biosensor diagno...
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14 Feb 2023
Toward a personalized approach to the study and treatment of bone cancers
Researchers at Lund University have generated human mini bones in the lab which mirror the composition and function of human bone. The results published in Science Translational Me...
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13 Feb 2023
Reprogramming cancer cells into immune defenders
By reprogramming tumour cells to become the body’s defenders, Filipe Pereira and his colleagues hope to improve current cancer treatments.
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13 Feb 2023
Advanced treatments of the future are soon here
Stem cells programmed to produce insulin in people with type 1 diabetes or to repair the heart muscle after a heart attack. Gene and cell therapies that improve cancer treatments. ...
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15 Nov 2022
Altered cell behaviour behind resistance in neuroblastoma
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified one of the reasons why the childhood cancer neuroblastoma becomes resistant to chemotherapy. The findings are significant f...
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21 Oct 2022
SEK 31 million to enhance the effect of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer patients
Göran Jönsson, professor of molecular oncology, receives SEK 31 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to enhance the effect of immunotherapy in the treatment of can...
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25 Aug 2022
The tumour environment can affect breast cancer prognosis
The environment in which breast cancer arises –the interplay between the patient’s BMI, tumour size and cancer-specific proteins –is of importance for the prognosis. This is shown ...
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15 Jun 2022
Miniature bones as a research model for cancer
By using cells isolated from cancer patients and mixing them with a new technology called “OssiGel”, it is possible to engineer human mini-bones. These miniaturized organs consist ...
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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).
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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...
