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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).
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