Image: Mattias Pettersson
Image: Mattias Pettersson
Research group Brain tumors and especially gliomas are tumors that are not easily cured. The most malignant form glioblastoma have very poor survival.
The etiology of brain tumors is not well known, apart from some genetic factors and ionising radiation. Our group tries to understand the underlying causes of glioma and find biomarkers to detect glioma early. Our overall aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying pattern for the glioma architecture subtypes.
We use both cohort and collected case series from several different studies, such as (U-CAN and Northern Sweden Health and disease study
An Umeå researcher is co-founder of an international team, which has found genetic factors behind glioma.
Metabolites expression varies greatly between subgroups of malignant brain tumors, cancer researchers show.
