Olof Akre: Wants to personalise prostate cancer treatment
From Katarina Sternudd
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From Katarina Sternudd
Prostate cancer accounts for more male deaths in Sweden than any other form of cancer. However, how the disease progresses and how fatal it is, depend on the type of tumour. Olof Akre hopes to find better prognostic indicators that will help to personalise treatment. He was appointed Professor of Oncological Surgery at Karolinska Institutet on 1 November 2023.
Prostatacancer är den cancerform i Sverige som idag dödar flest män. Men sjukdomsutveckling och dödlighet skiljer sig åt mellan olika tumörformer. Olof Akre vill hitta bättre prognostecken för att kunna individanpassa behandlingarna. Han utnämndes till professor i onkologisk kirurgi vid Karolinska Institutet den 1 november 2023.