The prize winner of this year best PhD thesis at Lund University receives an award sum of 80,000 SEK to be used in research. The Maja and Hjalmar foundation is managed by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and the announcement of the prize and review process is managed by Lund University Cancer Centre. The prize was awarded with the motivation: “The work by Mattias Tranberg provides novel knowledge to improve clinical cancer care from a holistic viewpoint with focus on the relation between health care staff and seriously ill patients”.