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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest in cancer research</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate><description>Latest in cancer research</description><item><title>Stem cell transplantation – the key to healthier ageing?</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cell-transplantation-key-healthier-ageing</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cell-transplantation-key-healthier-ageing</guid><description>So far, it has only been studied in mice.</description></item><item><title>Why the sun makes us both healthier – and sicker</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-sun-makes-us-both-healthier-and-sicker</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-sun-makes-us-both-healthier-and-sicker</guid><description>Spending time in the sun can make us both healthier and happier. But too much as well as too little sun can cause serious health problems. How much sun is right for you depends, among other things, on your genes, how much pigment you have, and where in the world you are.</description></item><item><title>Life’s precious final phase </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lifes-precious-final-phase</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:56:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lifes-precious-final-phase</guid><description>A research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied how patients with advanced cancer seek care during the final stages of their lives. By studying their care patterns, the research team has developed a measurement method that relates healthcare needs to the changing value of time for patients at the end of life. The less time they have left to live, the more precious time feels. </description></item><item><title>Blood test detects early signs of breast cancer recurrence</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-test-detects-early-signs-breast-cancer-recurrence</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 09:17:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-test-detects-early-signs-breast-cancer-recurrence</guid><description>Researchers at Lund University have validated a blood-based method for measuring circulating tumor DNA in patients with early breast cancer. The method was able to identify breast cancer patients at high risk of recurrence and detect molecular signs of relapse before the disease became clinically visible using today’s standard methods.</description></item><item><title>Stiffer tumour tissue causes cancer to spread more quickly</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stiffer-tumour-tissue-causes-cancer-spread-more-quickly</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:36:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stiffer-tumour-tissue-causes-cancer-spread-more-quickly</guid><description>The stiffness of tumour tissue plays a role in how cancer spreads. Furthermore, stiff tumour tissue leaves traces in the affected cells. </description></item><item><title>Link between male infertility and increased risk of cancer </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/link-between-male-infertility-and-increased-risk-cancer</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/link-between-male-infertility-and-increased-risk-cancer</guid><description>Men with severely reduced fertility are at greater risk of developing other health conditions later in life. </description></item><item><title>From 1st Avenue, New York to Sölvegatan in Lund</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/1st-avenue-new-york-solvegatan-lund</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:26:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/1st-avenue-new-york-solvegatan-lund</guid><description>From the US to Lund: David Fenyö relocates his research with major Wallenberg funding.</description></item><item><title>“Digital breasts” could boost breast cancer screening</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/digital-breasts-could-boost-breast-cancer-screening</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:49:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/digital-breasts-could-boost-breast-cancer-screening</guid><description>Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed methods to simulate how breast tumours grow and how breast tissue changes over time.</description></item><item><title>Climate-friendly diet yielded unexpectedly strong nutritional outcomes</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-friendly-diet-yielded-unexpectedly-strong-nutritional-outcomes</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:38:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-friendly-diet-yielded-unexpectedly-strong-nutritional-outcomes</guid><description>That eating plenty of vegetables, wholegrains and legumes is beneficial for health is well known. More surprising, however, is that people who eat in a environmentally-friendly way also display nutritional values that are better than researchers had expected. This is shown in a new study from Lund University.</description></item><item><title>Aggressive brain tumours build protective “sugar shield” to survive extreme stress </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressive-brain-tumours-build-protective-sugar-shield-survive-extreme-stress</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:41:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressive-brain-tumours-build-protective-sugar-shield-survive-extreme-stress</guid><description>For the first time, researchers have identified a previously unrecognized metabolic defence mechanism in aggressive brain tumours: a sugar-rich shield that surrounds tumour cells and protects them against a particularly destructive form of cell death.&#13;
</description></item><item><title>AI support in breast cancer screening: Fewer missed cancer cases</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-support-breast-cancer-screening-fewer-missed-cancer-cases</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:30:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-support-breast-cancer-screening-fewer-missed-cancer-cases</guid><description>There were fewer cases of breast cancer between two screening rounds, and of the cancers that did develop, fewer were advanced or aggressive. The final results from Lund University's MASAI trial are now available, and they show further benefits of AI-supported breast cancer screening. The study has already shown that AI support in mammography screening contributes to a 29 percent increase in detected breast cancers compared to traditional screening.</description></item><item><title>Machine learning drives drug repurposing for neuroblastoma</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/machine-learning-drives-drug-repurposing-neuroblastoma</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:49:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/machine-learning-drives-drug-repurposing-neuroblastoma</guid><description>Using machine learning and a large volume of data on genes and existing drugs, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a combination of statins and phenothiazines that is particularly promising in the treatment of the aggressive form of neuroblastoma. The results from experimental trials showed slowing of tumour growth and higher survival rates. </description></item><item><title>Capturing the moment a cell shuts the door on free radicals</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/capturing-moment-cell-shuts-door-free-radicals</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:07:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/capturing-moment-cell-shuts-door-free-radicals</guid><description>For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals – small oxygen molecules that are sometimes needed, but that can also damage our cells. The study is published in Nature Communications and was led from Lund University.</description></item><item><title>How to reduce the risk of lymphedema</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-reduce-risk-lymphedema</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-reduce-risk-lymphedema</guid><description>Lymphedema after head and neck cancer is considerably more common than previously assumed and can persist long after cancer treatment has finished. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that patients with a low level of physical activity face a higher risk of developing lymphedema. They have also noted that a lymph scanner objectively measures changes in the condition – a method that has now been introduced in Sweden’s Southern Healthcare Region. </description></item><item><title>New mechanism revealed: How leukemia cells trick the immune system </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-revealed-how-leukemia-cells-trick-immune-system</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:42:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-revealed-how-leukemia-cells-trick-immune-system</guid><description>A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body’s immune system. By developing an antibody that blocks the mechanism, the researchers could restore the immune system’s ability to kill the cancer cells in laboratory trials and in mice. The discovery is published in Nature Cancer.</description></item><item><title>AI model from Lund University indicates four out of ten breast cancer patients could avoid axillary surgery  </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-model-lund-university-indicates-four-out-ten-breast-cancer-patients-could-avoid-axillary-surgery</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-model-lund-university-indicates-four-out-ten-breast-cancer-patients-could-avoid-axillary-surgery</guid><description>A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilised information in mammograms and pinpoints with high accuracy the individual risk of metastasis in the armpit. A newly completed study shows that the model indicates that just over 40 per cent of today’s axillary surgery procedures could be avoided.</description></item><item><title>Award-winning cancer researcher revolutionises diagnosis and treatment worldwide</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/award-winning-cancer-researcher-revolutionises-diagnosis-and-treatment-worldwide</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:36:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/award-winning-cancer-researcher-revolutionises-diagnosis-and-treatment-worldwide</guid><description>Professor Thoas Fioretos research has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society and the environment. </description></item><item><title>Urine test can assess risk of kidney cancer recurrence </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/urine-test-can-assess-risk-kidney-cancer-recurrence</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:39:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/urine-test-can-assess-risk-kidney-cancer-recurrence</guid><description>A simple urine test that can assess the risk of kidney cancer recurrence at an early stage could spare patients from frequent imaging scans, e.g. CT-scans, and thus reduce the associated radiation, anxiety and costs. This has been shown in a new international research study led by Lund University in Sweden. The results have now been published in European Urology Oncology.</description></item><item><title>Two researchers receive ERC Proof of Concept grants</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-researchers-receive-erc-proof-concept-grants</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-researchers-receive-erc-proof-concept-grants</guid><description>Carmelo D’Agostino, a researcher in traffic safety and behaviour, and stem cell researcher Paul Bourgine receive ERC Proof of Concept grants for their research into developing a new method for traffic safety assessments and finding new accurate models for testing immunotherapies in cancer treatment.</description></item><item><title>  Tiny, fatty and vital – meet the medicine courier of the future </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tiny-fatty-and-vital-meet-medicine-courier-future</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:10:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tiny-fatty-and-vital-meet-medicine-courier-future</guid><description>When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people – but in the background there was another, lesser known, hero: the lipid nanoparticle. Without these tiny “fat droplets”, the vaccines could never have been delivered into the body’s cells. And the fact is that these small particles will probably have more assignments in the future. It could be what enables the delivery of gene scissors and new gene therapies into the body.</description></item><item><title>Aggressive skin cancer driven by mitochondrial processes –existing drugs offer promising treatment path</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressive-skin-cancer-driven-mitochondrial-processes-existing-drugs-offer-promising-treatment-path</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:40:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressive-skin-cancer-driven-mitochondrial-processes-existing-drugs-offer-promising-treatment-path</guid><description>A new study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, reveals that melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, can in some cases be driven by mitochondrial processes, which can be effectively targeted using existing drugs. In preclinical laboratory experiments with melanoma cell cultures, researchers successfully eliminated cancer cells by using antibiotics and inhibitors of mitochondrial energy production, highlighting a potential therapeutic breakthrough.</description></item><item><title>SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:31:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university</guid><description>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.</description></item><item><title>AI-supported breast cancer screening – new results suggest even higher accuracy</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:59:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy</guid><description>New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent more cases of cancer compared with traditional screening. More invasive cancers were also clearly detected at an early stage using AI. Now the final part of the research study will focus on breast cancer missed by screening.</description></item><item><title>Unexpected discovery revives abandoned breast cancer treatment</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unexpected-discovery-revives-abandoned-breast-cancer-treatment</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:19:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unexpected-discovery-revives-abandoned-breast-cancer-treatment</guid><description>A new study led by Lund University in Sweden has solved a years-old mystery: which patients with aggressive breast cancer are helped by a targeted cancer treatment that had been under development but was shelved. The study is important since it brings hope that the development of the drug can continue and that it will make it all the way to these patients.</description></item><item><title>Cancer detection through hair analysis makes prestigious list</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cancer-detection-through-hair-analysis-makes-prestigious-list</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:58:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cancer-detection-through-hair-analysis-makes-prestigious-list</guid><description>The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has released its list of ongoing Swedish research projects with the potential to create societal benefit, dubbed the “100 list”. This year, nine projects from Lund University were included.</description></item><item><title>Foam cells in brain tumours</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:33:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours</guid><description>A research team at Lund University has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma.</description></item><item><title>Three Lund researchers to receive ERC Consolidator Grants</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants-0</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:28:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants-0</guid><description>Daniel Bexell, Joan Yuan and Andreas Nilsson have each been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. They will spend five years conducting research on childhood cancer neuroblastoma, the crucial role of B cells in our immune system and the Earth’s magnetic field.</description></item><item><title>EU funding for killer cells that fight cancer</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:13:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer</guid><description>As certain tumor cells are able to conceal themselves in the body, it often means that patients with aggressive cancers experience a recurrence of the cancer after treatment. By programming genetically modified killer immune cells to seek and destroy the hiding tumor cells and tumor stem cells, it is hoped that we can develop more effective treatment options. An international research project, with key technologies developed by Lund University in Sweden will be used to advance immunotherapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), glioblastoma, and pancreatic cancer. This consortium has been granted approximately 40 million SEK by EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe.</description></item><item><title>Breast cancer study altered guidelines in Sweden</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-study-altered-guidelines-sweden</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:49:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-study-altered-guidelines-sweden</guid><description>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 hereditary breast cancer doubled by including all genes in the screening test.</description></item><item><title>AI-supported mammography screening is found to be safe</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-supported-mammography-screening-found-be-safe</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:13:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-supported-mammography-screening-found-be-safe</guid><description>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 mammography screening. The trial, led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, has been published in The Lancet Oncology. </description></item><item><title>ERC grant for research on early detection of ovarian cancer</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-early-detection-ovarian-cancer</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 14:12:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-early-detection-ovarian-cancer</guid><description>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.</description></item><item><title>New insights into foetal development may protect against leukaemia</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-foetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:14:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-foetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia</guid><description>During the foetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the foetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund University demonstrate that one of these foetal programs appears to protect against acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). </description></item><item><title>Metabolic health plays role in obesity-related cancers</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metabolic-health-plays-role-obesity-related-cancers</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:51:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metabolic-health-plays-role-obesity-related-cancers</guid><description>For up to 40 years, nearly 800,000 people from Sweden, Norway and Austria have been tracked based on how their BMI and metabolic health – that is, their blood pressure, blood glucose levels and blood fats - affect the risk of suffering from obesity-related cancers. The study shows that those who are metabolically unhealthy are at a higher risk of certain forms of cancer, regardless of their body weight.</description></item><item><title>ERC grants for research on diabetes and immunotherapy</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grants-research-diabetes-and-immunotherapy</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:36:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grants-research-diabetes-and-immunotherapy</guid><description>Two innovation-driven research projects at Lund University have been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council, ERC. They relate to biomarkers for predicting who benefits from metformin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and new technology to enable powerful and focused therapies for the treatment of solid tumours.</description></item><item><title>Toward a personalized approach to the study and treatment of bone cancers</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/toward-personalized-approach-study-and-treatment-bone-cancers</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:21:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/toward-personalized-approach-study-and-treatment-bone-cancers</guid><description>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 bone cancers and tumors.</description></item><item><title>Reprogramming cancer cells into immune defenders </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reprogramming-cancer-cells-immune-defenders</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:54:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reprogramming-cancer-cells-immune-defenders</guid><description>By reprogramming tumour cells to become the body’s defenders, Filipe Pereira and his colleagues hope to improve current cancer treatments.</description></item><item><title>Advanced treatments of the future are soon here</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/advanced-treatments-future-are-soon-here</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/advanced-treatments-future-are-soon-here</guid><description>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 where traditional medicines are currently insufficient.</description></item><item><title>Altered cell behaviour behind resistance in neuroblastoma</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/altered-cell-behaviour-behind-resistance-neuroblastoma</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:21:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/altered-cell-behaviour-behind-resistance-neuroblastoma</guid><description>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.</description></item><item><title>Four Lund researchers receive SEK 120 million from the Wallenberg Foundation</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-researchers-receive-sek-120-million-wallenberg-foundation</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:59:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-researchers-receive-sek-120-million-wallenberg-foundation</guid><description>Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse and Mathieu Gisselbrecht of Lund University in Sweden have been awarded considerable grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Over a five-year period, they will conduct major projects on allosteric signalling, more effective immunotherapy, secretive helper proteins and quantum entanglement.</description></item><item><title>ERC grant for research on separating cells using ultrasound</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-separating-cells-using-ultrasound</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:14:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-separating-cells-using-ultrasound</guid><description>Per Augustsson, Associate Professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his work on how liquids and cells behave in a sound field.</description></item><item><title>The tumour environment can affect breast cancer prognosis</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tumour-environment-can-affect-breast-cancer-prognosis</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:34:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tumour-environment-can-affect-breast-cancer-prognosis</guid><description>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.</description></item><item><title>Smoking worsens prognosis for men with prostate cancer</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-worsens-prognosis-men-prostate-cancer</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 09:23:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-worsens-prognosis-men-prostate-cancer</guid><description>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 researchers followed more than 350 000 people over several decades, and the results are now published in European Urology.</description></item><item><title>Three Lund researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:07:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants</guid><description>Brain cells that control the behaviour of insects, extreme gene expression in Italian sparrows and how radiotherapy alters the microenvironment in aggressive brain tumors. Three researchers at Lund University have been awarded five-year grants from the European Research Council.</description></item><item><title>New precision technology for immunotherapy</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-precision-technology-immunotherapy</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:48:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-precision-technology-immunotherapy</guid><description>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 targeted immunotherapies that have revolutionised areas of cancer care. However, there are still significant challenges in the identification of cancer cell surface proteins as targets for immunotherapies. A research group at Lund University in Sweden is well on the way and have now published their findings in PNAS. </description></item><item><title>Metabolism found to regulate production of killer cells</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metabolism-found-regulate-production-killer-cells</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:39:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metabolism-found-regulate-production-killer-cells</guid><description>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 previously unknown metabolic switch with a key role in how different types of blood cells develop. This means blood cell formation can be directed towards producing natural killer cells in the laboratory to ultimately be used in a new anti-cancer treatment.</description></item><item><title>The body’s fantastic defence system gets help in the fight against cancer </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bodys-fantastic-defence-system-gets-help-fight-against-cancer</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:36:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bodys-fantastic-defence-system-gets-help-fight-against-cancer</guid><description>T cells, antibodies, immune defences – concepts we have learnt more about after a couple of years of a global Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding of how the immune system works against cancer is another major issue for research and development of new treatments. &#13;
‟Antibodies have been used in cancer care for close to 25 years but it is over the past five years that new techniques and treatments have taken a new direction”, says Mats Jerkeman, consultant physician in oncology at Skåne University Hospital and professor of clinical oncology at Lund University.  &#13;
</description></item><item><title>Environmentally sustainable diet linked to health benefits </title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/environmentally-sustainable-diet-linked-health-benefits</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:55:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/environmentally-sustainable-diet-linked-health-benefits</guid><description>A large population study from Lund University in Sweden has shown that more sustainable dietary habits are linked to health benefits, such as a reduced risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. The study is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.</description></item><item><title>Organised prostate cancer testing is to provide more equal care</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:57:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care</guid><description>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 introduced Organised prostate cancer testing, OPT.&#13;
"Anyone who wants to should be allowed to be tested for prostate cancer. Studies show that early detection lowers long-term mortality", says Anders Bjartell, one of Sweden’s leading prostate cancer researchers at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital.</description></item><item><title>New findings on benign adrenal tumours could improve care</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-benign-adrenal-tumours-could-improve-care</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 09:24:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-benign-adrenal-tumours-could-improve-care</guid><description>New research could enable better healthcare for patients with benign tumours of the adrenal glands. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified the levels of cortisol produced by the tumours which are associated with higher mortality rates.</description></item><item><title>Mutations can reduce effect of hormonal treatment in early breast cancer</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mutations-can-reduce-effect-hormonal-treatment-early-breast-cancer</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:33:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mutations-can-reduce-effect-hormonal-treatment-early-breast-cancer</guid><description>A small proportion of women who receive anti-estrogen treatment after breast cancer surgery have worse outcomes. This is associated with mutations in the estrogen receptor gene, according to a study from Lund University now published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.</description></item><item><title>Fewer breast cancer cases between screening rounds with 3D-mammography</title><link>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fewer-breast-cancer-cases-between-screening-rounds-3d-mammography</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:32:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fewer-breast-cancer-cases-between-screening-rounds-3d-mammography</guid><description>3D-mammography reduces the number of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the period between routine screenings, when compared with traditional mammography, according to a large study from Lund University in Sweden. The results are published in the journal Radiology.</description></item></channel></rss>
