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Barncancer drabbar varje år drygt 350 barn i Sverige. Tack vare forskning och en ständig utveckling av vården överlever i dag fler än åtta av tio barn. Men, det finns en stark önskan att ytterligare öka överlevnaden och minska sena komplikationer, såsom exempelvis hjärntrötthet och balans- och inlärningsrubbningar, orsakade av den intensiva behandlingen. Barntumörbanken är […]
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De första proven från forskningsstudien SCAPIS 2, som är en fortsättning på SCAPIS, har börjat komma in till biobankerna. – Biobanksprov tillsammans med bland annat bilder av hjärta, halskärl och lungor samt data från lungfunktionstester och enkätsvar om levnadsvanor ger ett fantastiskt underlag för forskning om hjärt-kärlsjukdom, säger Carl Johan Östgren, nationell forskningsledare för SCAPIS […]
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Genom att samla in, bevara och forska på biobanksprov vill Inga Soveri möjliggöra precisionsmedicin för patienter med njursjukdomar. – Visionen är att vi genom tillämpningen av våra resultat ska kunna erbjuda varje patient en mer individualiserad diagnos och behandling. Inga Soveri är överläkare och docent i njurmedicin och projektkoordinator från Uppsala för det nationella projektet […]
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Inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, is a serious illness that affects thousands of people in Sweden. Jonas Halfvarsson leads a research project that will develop more personalized treatments for IBD. The research is conducted in close collaboration with healthcare, and has already resulted in new treatments. In Sweden, about 3,000 individuals are diagnosed with IBD every […]
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Medical research is a cornerstone in enabling healthcare to offer better treatments. Everything from flu to cancer. But there is another group playing an important role in the process of developing new drugs or treatments: the patients. Eskil Degsell is a patient relative representative at Karolinska University Hospital and on the patient side in numerous […]
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Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers and the third most common cause of cancer deaths. Every year, around 1,000 new cases are discovered in Sweden. In more than half of the cases, an infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is behind the disease. By following people who get stomach cancer, researchers are […]
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People’s living conditions and psychosocial situation affect the risk of having a heart attack. Differences in income have particularly large effects in today’s Sweden. Margareta Kristensson has demonstrated this through her research and hopes this knowledge will have an increasing impact on both politics and healthcare. In 1992, more and more people were wondering about […]
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Anders Ståhlberg works on developing new ways to detect cancer with the help of blood and urine samples. The samples are easy to take and can be collected by a nurse, rather than the patient having to go through expensive MRI or X-ray examinations. He conducts his research in close collaboration with healthcare to help […]
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Autoimmune diseases are a major issue. They affect many in the form of, for instance, type 1 diabetes, gluten intolerance (celiac disease), rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS). It is possible that narcolepsy is also that type of disease. There are big gaps in the knowledge about autoimmunity, both about which diseases are autoimmune and […]
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In Sweden, there are several large population-based sample collections – cohorts – that have been collected in whole or in part by specific researchers or research groups. In a cohort, people can be followed over time. This is of great value and enables researchers to study various health effects and risk factors in humans. In […]
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