Cancer epidemiology accompanied by reproductive, clinical and the relative new discipline genetic epidemiology are major epidemiological disciplines used in our department Genetics and Medicine.
Ongoing studies address familial risk of breast cancer. Gene-environment interactions related to this major cancer site are elucidated in the ATM gene studies. Overall and site-specific cancer risk or prevention of major sites such as breast, colon, lung and prostate cancer following long-term use of medications is another prime area of research in our department. Other ongoing studies within the clinical epidemiological field address carcinogenic consequences of somatic diseases and surgical procedures, including the effects, if any, of breast implants.
Finally as a third research area of high priority, we invest the late effects of cancer therapy in childhood cancer and adolescence including health of offspring.
Main projects
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Breast cancer, exposure to radiation and the ATM gene
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Cancer in Nordic patients with ataxia-telangiectasia and in their relatives
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Familial predisposition for early-onset breast cancer
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Risk factors for breast cancer
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Cancer in patients with primary immunodeficiency and in their relatives
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Use of medications - cancer risk and chemoprevention
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Clinical and epidemiological follow-up of women with breast implants
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Cancer in patients with Parkinson’s disease
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Long-term complications in patients with childhood cancer
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Pregnancy outcomes in Nordic survivors of childhood cancer
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Genetic consequences of therapies for childhood and adolescent cancer