Published 25 August 2022 Photo: iStock/33karen33 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 in a study from Lund University in Sweden. The knowledge could further enhance precision medicine in breast cancer. Major advances in diagnostics and treatment have improv

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/tumour-environment-can-affect-breast-cancer-prognosis - 2025-07-09

Published 21 October 2022 Illustration of T cell attack on cancer cell. Illustration: iStock/luismmoling 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 cancer patients. About 30 per cent of patients with metastatic melanoma benefit from immunotherapy. At the same time,

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/sek-31-million-enhance-effect-immunotherapy-treatment-cancer-patients - 2025-07-09

Published 15 November 2022 Photo: iStock/kan2d 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 for how future treatments should be designed. The results have been published in Science Advances. Neuroblastoma is an aggressive cancer of the sympathetic nervous system, es

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/altered-cell-behaviour-behind-resistance-neuroblastoma - 2025-07-09

Published 13 February 2023 Johan Flygare and Aurélie Baudet, stem cell researchers at Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. 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. These new and innovative therapies have the potential to cure, alleviate and treat diseases whe

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/advanced-treatments-future-are-soon-here - 2025-07-09

Published 13 February 2023 Dolly the sheep determined Filipe Pereira’s future career. The choice was between becoming an architect or a scientist, when one of the world’s most extreme examples of cellular programming sparked his curiosity about the human body. Photo: Johan Persson By reprogramming tumour cells to become the body’s defenders, Filipe Pereira and his colleagues hope to improve curren

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/reprogramming-cancer-cells-immune-defenders - 2025-07-09

Published 14 February 2023 Paul Bourgine, Researcher and Wallenberg Fellow in Molecular Medicine. Photo: Kennet Ruona. 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 Medicine detail this step toward the future development of patient-tailored, personalized models of bon

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/toward-personalized-approach-study-and-treatment-bone-cancers - 2025-07-09

Published 19 May 2023 Congratulations to Jessica Wihl with the PhD thesis entitled "Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in Cancer Care: Case Discussions, Patient Selection, Leadership" who was awarded with the best cancer PhD thesis of year 2022. The award was presented 4 May 2023 at Lund University Cancer Centre internal one-day meeting with presentation of the thesis by the winner. The prize sum was

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/best-phd-thesis-award-cancer-2022-lund-university - 2025-07-09

Published 21 May 2023 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 diagnostics for the early detection of ovarian cancer. What is your research project about? The project is a collaboration work with Dr. Jae Yen Shin, a former colleague and entrepreneur. We will use my l

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-early-detection-ovarian-cancer - 2025-07-09

Published 25 June 2023 Håkan Axelson's research group is part of the large EU-funded KATY project, which focuses on the most common type of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, which is one of the ten most common types of cancer worldwide. Image: iStock. What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers with software developers and AI researchers? Hopefully, with the help o

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/kicking-kidney-cancer - 2025-07-09

Published 2 October 2023 Kristina Lång (Photo: Erika Svantesson) 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 doctors. This has now been shown in an interim analysis of a prospective, randomised controlled trial, which addressed the clinical safety of using AI in mammo

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/ai-supported-mammography-screening-found-be-safe - 2025-07-09

Published 2 October 2023 Image: iStock/Rasi Bhadramani 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 genes associated with elevated risk for these types of cancer. A multi-year Swedish study now reveals that the proportion of women with genetically confirmed heredita

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-study-altered-guidelines-sweden - 2025-07-09

Published 5 October 2023 UroCan – LUCC: translational cancer research network explains their research in a film. Film on YouTube Bladder cancer research group at Lund University Cancer Centre explains the importance of research done in the past years. What is the future of bladder cancer diagnosis and treatment? Did you know you can directly contact the research centre if you experience bladder ca

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/urinary-bladder-cancer-research - 2025-07-09

Published 4 March 2024 The government has appointed Professor Mef Nilbert as a special investigator with the task of submitting proposals for an updated national cancer strategy. The updated strategy is the next step in developing the existing strategy that was presented in 2009, but is adapted to address the major developments that have taken place in cancer care since then. The update is made to

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/mef-nilbert-leads-update-new-swedish-cancer-strategy - 2025-07-09

Published 24 April 2024 The research group in front of the Faculty of Medicine's donation tree. From left: Juliet Jacobsen, Eva Brun, Jenny Klintman and Mikael Segerlantz 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 financial boost thanks to an anonymous donor. Th

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/donation-research-early-hospital-based-palliative-care - 2025-07-09

Published 8 August 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 more research on the topic. Our knowledge regarding the long-term health effects of tattoos is currently poor, and there is not a lot of

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/possible-association-between-tattoos-and-lymphoma-revealed - 2025-07-09

Published 8 August 2024 Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview, the former aid worker told the reporter: “My pain is under control and I’m terribly happy – it sounds weird to say, but I’m as happy as I’ve ever been in my life.”It may seem odd that a person could be happy as the end draws near, but in my exper

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/why-are-some-people-happy-when-they-are-dying - 2025-07-09

Published 12 August 2024 Filipe Pereira and Per Augustsson have been awarded Proof of Concept grants. Photos: Håkan Röjder and Kennet Ruona 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. The ERC today announced 100 new Proof of Concept grants, of which a total of thre

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/researchers-receive-prestigious-erc-grant - 2025-07-09

Published 14 February 2025 Foam cells visualised using confocal microscopy in tissue from a patient with glioblastoma. Shown are the nucleus (in blue), a marker for macrophages that are recruited from the bone marrow (in green) and lipid droplets that gave the foam cell its name. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours - 2025-07-09

Published 27 February 2025 The Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation is donating SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University. This is the largest donation to the university since its foundation in 1666. The donation is dedicated to translational cancer research, meaning applied cancer research in antibody and cell therapies with the aim of improving prognosis and quality of life for today's cance

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university - 2025-07-09

Published 13 March 2025 The Swedish Cancer Society awards Kristian Pietras the Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025 honour. He is a professor of molecular medicine at Lund University and is being recognised for his research on the tumour microenvironment, which has given us the key to understanding how cells in blood vessels and connective tissue interact with tumour cells. The motivation for the Ca

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/kristian-pietras-named-cancer-researcher-year-2025 - 2025-07-09