Body mass index and colorectal cancer recurrence and mortality: A nationwide cohort study in Denmark
What's New? Obesity may worsen colorectal cancer prognosis, but the existing evidence remains inconclusive. This large nationwide cohort study comprehensively assessed how BMI interacts with demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors to influence colorectal cancer prognosis.
Cathrine F. Hjorth +8 more
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Validity of Algorithm for Classification of In- and Outpatient Hospital Contacts in the Danish National Patient Registry. [PDF]
Skjøth F, Nielsen H, Bodilsen J.
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Indicators to identify cancer screening providers with suboptimal case detection: A scoping review
What's New? Quality control of cancer screening programs is essential to maintaining high public health standards. Here, the authors reviewed monitoring of case detection in cervical and colorectal cancer screening programs in Europe, and evaluated its effectiveness. They analysed 20 different measures used for this purpose and showed that many of them
Jiayao Lei +5 more
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Challenges in the future of cancer screening
Abstract The purpose of cancer screening is to reduce mortality, and ideally incidence, from the cancer screened for. Until recently, cancer screening has been offered to all persons in pre‐defined sex‐ and age‐groups. The exception is lung screening which is targeted to high‐risk individuals.
Elsebeth Lynge +29 more
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Unchanged incidence but change in treatment trends from 1996 to 2018: 23,718 humeral shaft fractures from the Danish National Patient Registry. [PDF]
Karimi D +4 more
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Predicting optimal impact interventions in the post‐HPV vaccination world
Abstract Prophylactic vaccination is a powerful tool that changes exposure to infections and associated morbidity of preventable diseases. We discuss the impact of pneumococci and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on the population biology of the two micro‐organisms and related public health effects.
Matti Lehtinen +7 more
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The Validity of a New Procedure-Based Definition of Cancer Status in Patients with Breast-, Lung- and Colorectal Cancer in the Danish National Patient Registry. [PDF]
Nielsen SK +8 more
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What's New? The understanding of the epidemiological and clinical distinctions between Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)‐positive and EBV‐negative classic Hodgkin lymphoma remains incomplete. Here, the authors generated unique sets of population‐based sex‐ and age‐specific incidence rates of classic Hodgkin lymphoma in Denmark stratified by histological subtype
Klaus Rostgaard +18 more
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Objectives Comparison of recorded diagnoses of multiple sclerosis (MS) and related disorders and disease‐modifying therapies (DMTs) in The Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry (DMSR) with other nationwide health registries.
Hanna Joensen +3 more
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What's New? In the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic, cancer reporting in the Nordic countries declined, presumably owing to delays in cancer diagnosis. How the pandemic impacted cancer survival in these countries, however, remains unclear. Using data from Nordic cancer registries that together include more than 27 million people, the authors of the ...
Fernando Gonzalez Yli‐Mäyry +18 more
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