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The Project Board of KNEP is grateful for the generous memorial donation by the Voldbakken family. The donation will be used for research into a new model for pancreatic cancer which has been developed by Prof Anders Molven and his group at the University of Bergen. The model attempts to explain how certain genetic changes can lead to the development of pancreatic cancer.
The results of a new study by the Pathology work package were presented at the annual meeting of the Norwegian Pathology Society. The study shows that pathology evaluation of the effect of neoadjuvant treatment of pancreatic cancer, is only reliable if tumour regression is extensive, while lesser degrees of treatment effect cannot be identified with certainty. Maia Blomhoff Holm (to the right on the photograph), who presented the study, was awarded the “Research prize 2024 – best free paper”. Read the publication here.
Stina M. Stålberg, MD, PhD student at Dept. of Cancer Genetics, ICR, Oslo University Hospital and USN (work package: “Omics and biomarkers”) presented a poster with results from a research project on protein levels of KRAS in pancreatic cancer at the Nordic Precision Cancer Medicine, Acta Oncologica Conference, Holmenkollen Park Hotel in Oslo, September 17-19, 2023.