STUDY. Bariatric surgery is associated with a distinct reduction in skin-cancer risk, a study shows. This finding can be described as a key piece of evidence that substantiates the connection between weight loss and malignant skin cancer. “This provides further evidence for a connection between obesity and malignant skin cancer, and for the view that we should regard obesity as a risk factor for these forms of cancer,” says Magdalena…
Cancer researchers attend a wide-ranging meeting in Gothenburg
Caption: Panel discussion participants, from left, Claes Gustafsson, assistant head of the Institute of Biomedicine; Peter Naredi, head of the Institute of Clinical Sciences; Agneta Holmäng, dean of Sahlgrenska Academy; Johanna Svensson, head of the Department of Oncology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital; Thomas Björk-Eriksson, director of Regional Cancer Center West; and Ann-Marie Wennberg, director of Sahlgrenska University Hospital. CONFERENCES. The first Gothenburg Cancer Meeting (GCM2019) took place on May 6-7…
Jonas Nilsson’s latest guest in Akademiliv the podcast
PODCAST. When Jonas Nilsson, Professor of Experimental Cancer Surgery and Head of the Sahlgrenska Cancer Center (SCC), visits our podcast Akademiliv, the conversation deals with both meloanoma, immunotherapy and cancer research in general. Here you can listen to the section with Jonas Nilsson (in Swedish): https://soundcloud.com/sahlgrenskaakademin/standiga-framsteg-inom-cancerforskningen The Podcast Akademiliv is a series of half-hour-long conversations between communicators and researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy. Most episodes are in Swedish, but there are a…
Alessandro Camponeschi receives post-doctoral research position from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund (Barncancerfonden)
GRANTS. Alessandro Camponeschi, a researcher at the Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, has received a two-year postdoctoral research position from Barncancerfonden, starting this autumn. He is one of in total five researchers at University of Gothenburg who recieve a grant from the foundation. The project concerns acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), one of the most common forms of cancer in children affecting the bone marrow and blood. About 85 percent of the…
Sjöberg Foundation gives SEK 9 million for cancer research at Sahlgrenska Academy
GRANTS. The Sjöberg Foundation recently decided to support two teams conducting cancer research at Sahlgrenska Academy with grants totaling SEK 9 million. A study that can pave the way for using immunotherapy as a treatment for pancreatic cancer received the largest grant. Peter Naredi is the principal applicant for that project, which receives SEK 6 million from the Sjöberg Foundation. The translational project deals with improved diagnosis and treatment of…