Presentation of the Centre
The Umeå University Hospital (applying to be Umeå CCC) is the referral center for cancer treatment in the northern health care region of Sweden comprising more than 50% of Sweden’s geographical area and with a catchment area of 1 million inhabitants. The university hospital cares for diagnosis and treatment for all major cancer diseases.
Main Research Activities
The integration between the university hospitals and Umeå university is the base for our strong pre-clinical, translational and clinical research. Cancer research is one of the focus research areas that includes basic, translational and clinical cancer research. Further, our biobanks and cancer registries enable unique population-based studies including pre-diagnostic blood samples collected in the region.
Core Facilities
The cancer specialized clinical research unit (KFE), the pre-clinical research lab and the radiation oncology research platform including PET/MR facilitates translational cancer research are examples of core facilities. The Clinical Research Center (KFC) is a joint resource for regional clinical studies for the northern health care region.
Education
The Cancer Centre participates is education on all academic levels and have graduate students from most educational programs. Life sciences students are integrating into the core facilities of the Cancer centre. Cancer research education for postgraduate students is given and the Cancer Centre is deeply involved in a national Cancer research school.