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The Norwegian Cancer Society’s National Expert Group for Pancreatic Cancer Research (KNEP) hosted the 4th national network meeting on pancreatic cancer research last Friday (March 13th) at the Grand Hotel in Oslo. The event brought together 63 participants from across the country. Program highlights included presentations by Professor Jeff Evans from the University of Glasgow and Kasper Overbeek from the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute Rotterdam. This year's meeting placed a special focus on clinical trials and the surveillance of individuals with a hereditary increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer. The meeting was organized in collaboration with the Pancreatic Cancer Network Norway (PKNN; www.pknn.no), which celebrated its 10th anniversary at the same venue later that day.
The National Network Meeting on Pancreatic Cancer Research will be held on March 13, 2026, at the 'Grand Hotel' in Oslo. The meeting is organized by the Norwegian Cancer Society's National Group of Expertise on Research on Pancreatic Cancer (KNEP; https://knep.no/). The program will include presentations by both international and Norwegian researchers and will conclude with a celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of Pancreatic Cancer Network Norway (PKNN; https://pknn.no). The preliminary program is included below
KNEP researchers from Stavanger University Hospital presented new results last week at the ISMRC (International Symposium on Minimal Residual Cancer) research conference in Nice, France. The results showed a slight improvement in the detection of cancer DNA in blood by using the new methods.