Date Time
Cancer emergency rations could provide basis for new treatment
Insight into cancer cells’ own first aid could help the development of a new type of treatment. Johanna Olweus and her team at the UiO (University of Oslo) and the OUS (Oslo University Hospital) are important contributors to this study, which has been published in Nature.
The researcher team at UiO and OUS. From left: Weiwen Yang, Maarja Laos, Johanna Olweus and Morten Milek Nielsen. Photo: Cathrine Knetter Hoel.
Cancers such as malignant melanoma are notoriously difficult to treat. One of the reasons for this is the lack of good therapeutic targets, i.e. specific points for treatment to attack. Such points are ideally properties of the cancer cells that distinguish them from normal cells.