News archive for Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO

investigator swabs a person in his mouth.

Smoking can activate a wide range of cancer types (24.08.2015)

CCBIO’s Professor Helga Salvesen has been co-author of a study recently published in the renowned journal JAMA Oncology. The results of the study may indicate that cigarette smoke helps to activate an entire universal "cancer program" which are also present in cancer that are not usually associated with smoking, including breast and gynecological cancers.

Doctor checking a patient's mole for cancer.

Five new susceptibility loci for cutaneous malignant melanoma discovered (07.08.2015)

Researchers have found five new genetic regions that make people more susceptible to malignant melanomas. CCBIO’s Lars Akslen is one of the Norwegian researchers who have been contributing to this international study.

International Conference, “The tumor stroma- friend or foe?” (03.08.2015)

The Marie Curie ITN Network CAFFEIN, caffein.ku.dk, arranges its first international conference in Bergen October 22nd-23rd 2015.