Pinktober has arrived! But why all the fuss? Well, October is internationally recognized as breast cancer awareness month. During this time, a global campaign runs to bring attention to the disease and to raise funds for research to its cause. Considering that breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide and in Norway, this is a pretty big deal.
Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale awarded Commandor of St. Olavs Order for her efforts in cancer research.
The international conference on triple negative breast cancer is held in the United States in September.
Workshop at Vestre Viken in Drammen.
The 4th Sola Breast Cancer Meeting was arranged in the end of April.
The Nordic Health Research and Innovation Networks (NRI) conference is held in Oslo on the 19th of May.
Network member Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale delivered her award lecture at the AACR-WICR Annual Meeting 2017 in Washington, DC, Monday 3rd of April.
The paper "HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures" was published in Nature Medicine on the 13th of March.
Members from the network went to Weggis for a breast cancer workshop.
The health care forum War on Cancer Nordics was arranged in Oslo in March.
