2020 - Hanna Dillekås

MD from Linköping University, Sweden. She was until June 2020 a PhD candidate in the Straume group. Her research was focused on tumor dormancy and how tissue trauma and wound healing can stimulate escape from dormancy to produce overt metastatic disease in breast cancer.

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Hanna Elisabeth Dillekås completed her PhD June 4, 2020. Dissertation title: "Importance of physical trauma on recurrence of breast cancer. Can tissue trauma synchronize growth of dormant micrometastases?" Supervisors were Professor Oddbjørm Straume, Associate Professor Svein Arthur Jensen and Professor Olav Mella. See press release.

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