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Clinical research

Clinical cancer research is patient-oriented research in close collaboration with the health care system in the Northern Collaboration Region. This research also includes cancer epidemiology based on prospectively collected national and local registry data from quality and public health registries. Umeå University has a special position in that it is able to link cancer incidence, survival and treatment effects to data collected from the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP), among others.

Clinical research often applies results from the university's basic and transnational research in clinical or intervention studies. Biological correlations that determine the efficacy of various forms of cancer treatment are studied in models that investigate both survival and undesirable side effects. In several fields of the multifaceted treatment arsenal used for cancer therapy, such as radiation science, the University is a leader.

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the patient's own experience of the cancer, its treatment and life after treatment. Research conducted on these processes spans areas such as qualitative analysis of individuals' experiences from onset to processes of care, but also practical applied research on, for example, stoma function and the effects of physical activity before and after cancer diagnosis.

The research is carried out at most of the Faculty of Medicine's departments in collaboration with health care units throughout the Northern Collaborative Region, including primary care and the Rural Medical Centre (Glesbygdsmedicinskt Centrum).

Features

Wants to reduce debris and interference in X-rays

Anders Garpebring wants to get sharper and clearer results from images of cancerous tumors, with help of AI.

Genetics, environment and health

What particularly interests Sophia Harlid is how the environment affects us during sensitive time periods.

Research groups

Annika Idahl lab
We conduct research on the prevention of ovarian cancer, as well as risk profiling and early detection.
Type of project Research group
Arctic diet, health and sustainability
We study associations between dietary patterns and health in the North, with a specific interest in data on traditional food collected in Arctic...
Type of project Research group
Lars-Owe Koskinen lab
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Type of project Research group
Roger Henriksson lab
We have cloned the genes for human LRIG1-3, which constitute a gene family and are predicted to encode integral cell membrane proteins with cellula...
Type of project Research group
Maria Sandström lab
Malignant gliomas are the most common group of brain tumors in adults and affect about 500 people annually in Sweden. Malignant gliomas consist of...
Type of project Research group
Mårten Werner - liver diseases
Our group works against liver diseases including liver cancer.
Type of project Research group
Per Fransson lab
We study how cancer patients feel during and after treatment and their experiences of treatment and care.
Type of project Forskargrupp
Cancer care - the patient's needs and contact with care from primary care to rehabilitation
The complex interaction when the patient has contact with the cancer care – can we support the patient better and thereby achieve better health?
Type of project Forskargrupp
Rickard Sjöberg
We are trying to understand brain function and how it can be protected in people with brain tumours and other neurosurgical conditions.
Type of project Research group
Research group Martin Rutegård
Our research group primarily studies surgical factors via register-based national surveys, but also through clinical studies including biological...
Type of project Research group
CLISTER - Clinical Surgical Trials Epidemiological Research
Clister is a research group focusing on near patient surgical research. Our front line targets are advanced abdominal wall surgery and ostomy issue...
Type of project Research group
Colorectal cancer
The importance of the intestinal microflora and tumour molecular characteristics in prognosis and therapy of colorectal cancer.
Type of project Research group
David Lindquist lab
Cancer of the female genital tract is a major type of cancer worldwide with more than 1 million new cases every year. The three most common types o...
Type of project Research group
Upper airway virus - driver or passenger on the journey to chronic infection?
Upper airway virus - driver or passenger on the journey to chronic infection can we protect ourselves?
Type of project Research group
Sophia Harlid´s research group
Molecular and genetic epidemiology. We study the connection between our environment, our genes and our health.
Type of project Forskargrupp
Tufve Nyholm Lab
The group is focused on medical imaging using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), methods to improve image...
Type of project Research group
Bethany van Guelpen Lab
We do research about risk profiling and early detection of colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer (CRC), the third most common cancer in men and wome...
Type of project Research group
Sofie Degerman Lab
We do research on epigenetics and telomere biology in hematological malignancies.
Type of project Research group
The DIRECT-study
Identification of inherited patogenic variants in cancer-predisposing genes in a patient opens up the opportunity of predictive testing to genetic...
Type of project Research project
Duration 2 September 2019 until 31 December 2025
Beatrice Melins group
Brain tumors and especially gliomas are tumors that are not easily cured. The most malignant form glioblastoma have very poor survival.
Type of project Research group
Oskar Hemmingsson lab - cancer research
Clinical and experimental studies of cancer. We are running a randomized clinical trial on local treatment of breast cancer liver metastases and...
Type of project Research project
Duration 1 January 2013
Fex-Can, Fertility and sexuality following cancer
Many cancer treatments have a negative impact on fertility and sexuality, which may interfere with important life goals such as finding a partner a...
Type of project Research project
Duration 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2025