Diagnostics and pathology
To make a diagnosis and describe the disease in question is the basis for a correct treatment.
In cancer research many studies are made to refine methods to distinguish variants of for example more or less aggressive cancers. Research is also made to develop methods to follow and follow-up the effects of any given treatment.
Pathology - the science of disease
In pathology tissue, cells, molecules and genes are studied. Biopsies - tissue samples - from suspected tumours are examined in the microscope. Cytological analyses are made from needle biopsies and cell smears. Tumour cells and cells in pre-cancerous stages can then be found. Molecular and genetic analyses are developed rapidly.
Research groups in diagnostics and pathology
- Bertha Brodin, oncology-pathology
- Björn Cedermark, colorectal surgery
- Lars Egevad, prostate cancer
- Tomas Ekström, medical epigenetics
- Lennart Eriksson, liver cancer
- Leonard Girnita, beta-arrestins in cancer
- Bengt Glimelius, oncology-pathology
- Eva Hellström Lindberg, myelodysplastic syndromes
- Jan-Inge Henter, histiocytoses and haematology
- Torbjörn Holm, colorectal surgery
- Lifu Hu, development of cancer
- Per Kogner, childhood neural tumours
- Jesper Lagergren, upper gastrointestinal research
- Catharina Larsson, medical genetics
- Olle Larsson, insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R)
- Janne Lehtiö, proteomics
- Anna Martling, colorectal surgery
- Magnus Nordenskjöld, clinical genetics
- Anna Porwit, haematopathology
- Birgitta Sander, malignant lymphoma
- Staffan Strömblad, role of integrins
- Karl Tryggvason, matrix biology
- Arne Östman, tumor stroma and protein tyrosine phosphatases
