Helena Carén to receive the Assar Gabrielsson award for research that resulted in better diagnosis of childhood cancer
Helena Carén has studied genetic abberations in tumors and will receive the prize of SEK 50,000 for her thesis at the University of Gothenburg. Her analysis method is currently being used to find the right treatment for children in Sweden suffering from neuroblastoma, the aggressive cancer form found in children.Neuroblastom appears in the nervous system and is one of the most common tumor diseases in children. Helena Carén has shown that there are abberations in certain genes in patients suffering from a more malignant type of the disease and with poor prognosis. “In the future, the