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Cancer

Cancer is a malignant disease and one of the most common causes of death in our time. The aim of studying cancer is to develop safe and effective methods to prevent, detect, diagnose, treat and ultimately cure the various diseases known as cancer. The better we understand these diseases, the more progress we will make towards reducing the human suffering and economic costs of cancer.

Areas within cancer

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Clinical research

Clinical cancer research is patient-oriented research in close collaboration with the health care system.

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Basic research

We need a greater understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind the spread of cancer.

Daniel Öhlund
Translational cancer research

Translational research bridges the gap between laboratory-based science and cancer treatment in clinic.

News

Robin Fåhraeus
Professor vid Institutionen för medicinsk biovetenskap
New strategy targets one of cancer research's toughest challenges

By disrupting the genetic instructions that produce c-Myc, researchers can slow the growth of cancer cells.

Northern Sweden’s cancer care closer to international quality accreditation

The Organisation of European Cancer Institutes gives green light for the next phase: an on-site review visit.

Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för medicinsk kemi och biofysik
New funding for targeted treatment of Epstein–Barr virus cancers

Most cancer drugs target proteins. This strategy instead targets the virus's DNA.

Study from Umeå paves the way for a new drug against metastatic prostate cancer

The researchers, led by Maréne Landström, have developed a so-called fully human antibody.

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Exocyst project
New mechanism behind breast cancer metastasis uncovered

The new study shows that the protein METTL3 helps breast cancer cells spread.

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Mistletoe extract shows no effect in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer

The study shows that palliative patients neither live longer nor experience improved quality of life.

Research infrastructures

Biobanken norr
It is possible for researchers to join Biobanken norr organizationally and then choose to use other services.
Research area: Cancer
Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU)
BICU is an interdisciplinary facility providing state-of-the-art imaging technology with affinity measurements
Research area: Cancer, Infection biology
Biomedical Engineering – Research and Development (MT-R&D)
MT-R&D’s development and research support is a research infrastructure that offers extensive technical competence and equipment to researchers and hea
BioMolecular Characterization Umeå
BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules.
Clinical Research Center
The Clinical Research Center is a joint resource for Region and University for near-patient clinical studies. The Clinical Research Center may provide
Clinical Studies Sweden – Forum North
Clinical Studies Sweden – Forum North is a platform for research-supporting infrastructure with the goal of facilitating the implementation of studies
Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine
EPIC - The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
EPIC was designed to study associations between diet, nutrition, lifestyle, environment, and disease.
Epigenetic Platform Umeå
DNA methylation is the process through which a methyl group is added to DNA nucleotides, most commonly at the 5-carbon position of cytosine (5mC). Met
Research area: Cancer
Flow@CliMi
Analysis of cell surface bound as well as intracellular proteins and RNA expression with flow cytometry.
Kostdatabas i norra Sverige (NSDD)
NSDD contains refined dietary data based on food frequency questionnaries from Norrbotten and Västerbotten.
PREDICT
Personalised screening, risk prediction, and understanding disease trajectories for early detection of disease - An integrated cohort approach.
Regional Cancer Centre North (RCC North)
RCC Norr works to ensure high quality in registry data, knowledge management, and clinical research.
Research area: Cancer
Swedish PRrecision medicine Initiative for Novel Treatment and Research (SPRINTR)
SPRINTR is a national infrastructure for cancer research that collects and provides access to data for research. Through a shared framework for data c
The Construction Health Cohort
The construction workers cohort contains data from more than 389,000 individuals from the Swedish construction industry that was collected from 1971 t