The studies will focus on colon cancer and glioblastomas
The Spanish Cancer Society of the Balearic Islands is providing more than €176,000 for two research grants. One will study the relationship between obesity and colon cancer and the other will try to figure out why antidepressant treatments don’t work as well in patients receiving chemotherapy.
Laura Gálvez is a predoctoral researcher in the Neuropharmacology Group at IUNICS and Idisba of the UIB. His thesis, which received a grant of €76,000, will focus on how chemotherapy affects the effectiveness of antidepressant treatment due to the high prevalence of depression in patients with brain cancer. The ultimate goal is to improve and personalize chemotherapy treatments for patients with glioblastoma.
Other research will attempt to determine the direct relationship between obesity and colorectal cancer, which is the most common in Spain, along with lung and breast cancer. 40,000 cases of this type of cancer are diagnosed in the country every year. Predoctoral researcher Serena Sadoun from the Lipids in Human Pathology group at Edispa will lead this study with a grant of €100,600.
The AECC has been promoting oncology research for years and supports 565 grants worth €104 million that will reach a total of 1,000 researchers from all over Spain.
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