News
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Two new diagnoses: Kidney- and testicular cancer
On the first of December 2022, two new diagnostic areas were started in U-CAN: kidney cancer and testicular cancer. These are thus the 14th and the 15th diagnostic areas to join the U-CAN-project.
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U-CAN celebrated 12 years
On the 17th of November U-CAN celebrated 12 years of successful operation.
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U-CAN utlyser forskningsstöd
Under 2022-2023 kan forskare ansöka om stöd för att bedriva forskning baserat på U-CAN material.
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New design and new content on the U-CAN website
U-CAN launches a new and improved website with several new pages and much more useful information for the website's visitors.
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U-CAN welcomes the liver- and pancreatic cancer group
In April 2021 the thirteenth diagnosis area within U-CAN was formed: Liver-, bile duct- and pancreatic cancer. These forms of cancer usually have a very poor prognosis and U-CAN therefore hopes to contribute to continued research for improved survival and individualized medicine by initiating this new collection of samples and data.
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U-CAN’s 10-year anniversary celebration event in May is cancelled
Because of Covid-19, the planned activities to highlight that U-CAN has been in operation for 10 years are cancelled until further notice.
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Swedish cancer research meeting 2019
U-CAN in Umeå and local collaborators will host the 5th Swedish Cancer Research Meeting in Umeå 3-4 October 2019. This is a national meeting organized by the strategic research areas for cancer; U-CAN, StratCan and BioCARE.
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Support for study design made available
To support researchers who wish to use material from the sample collection U-CAN has published a white paper for study design.
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Increased number of applications for U-CAN samples in 2017
The U-CAN sample collection experiences great interest from researchers and the number of research applications submitted to U-CAN in 2017 has surpassed previous years.
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Statistics for patients included in U-CAN in the Uppsala-Örebro region
Statistics describing the collection of blood samples from patients included in U-CAN at the hospitals in Karlstad and Gävle are now available at the website.
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New U-CAN diagnoses in Uppsala: Esophagus and stomach cancer
As of 1 July 2017, U-CAN also collects samples from patients with cancer in the esophagus or stomach.
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New paper about U-CAN
The paper describes U-CAN’s sample collection and organisation, and the value of the U-CAN material for cancer research. The close collaboration between participating universities and hospitals is emphasized as an important factor behind the successful collection of samples from cancer patients before, during and after therapy.
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U-CAN grants support for PhD students and post docs
In the spring 2017 U-CAN opened a call for applications for salary support for PhD students or post docs working in projects that use U-CAN material. Four applications were granted support for periods between two and four years.
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15.000 patients included in U-CAN
At the end of 2017, more than 15.000 patients had consented to participate in U-CAN since the start of the sample collection in 2010.
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Doubled grant to cancer research collaboration
The foundation Mats Paulssons stiftelse has decided to continue supporting the collaborations between U-CAN in Uppsala and SCAN-B in Lund. The support will also increase from one to two million SEK.
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U-CAN member of EATRIS
U-CAN has recently joined the European infrastructure for translational research, EATRIS, which has already resulted in a joint EUROSTARS application in the lymphoma field, with the companies ExBiome and ExScale
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New co-workers in U-CAN
Per-Henrik Edqvist has been working as U-CAN’s new project coordinator for a few weeks now. His responsibilities include financial and scientific reporting, handling of collaboration contracts and contacts with U-CAN affiliated staff.
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Tobias Sjöblom receives the prize Eric K Fernströms Svenska Pris 2016
Tobias Sjöblom, chair of the U-CAN programme board, has been awarded the prize Eric K Fernströms Svenska Pris, for his work with establishing U-CAN.