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Colon cancer controls versus population controls in case-control studies of occupational risk factorsLinda Kaerlev
Research Unit of Maritime Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark
BMC Cancer 4:15. 2004..In this study we examine if colon cancer patients can serve as surrogates for proper population controls in case-control studies of occupational risk factors...
[Descriptive epidemiology: development of incidence over time, geographical and social differences, risk factors, etc]Elsebeth Lynge
Københavns Universitet, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Statens Serum Institut, Afdelingen for Epidemiologisk Forskning, Rigshospitalet, Mamma and Endokrinkirurgisk Klinik, Juliane Marie Centret, København K
Ugeskr Laeger 169:2965-7. 2007..Future trends in breast cancer incidence are determined by present risk factors, where particularly the high age at first birth and the increased prevalence of obesity are expected to push the trend upwards...- Reporting of performance indicators of mammography screening in EuropeE Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 København N, Denmark
Eur J Cancer Prev 12:213-22. 2003..Based on the observed wide variation in short-term indicators, a similar wide variation is expected in the effect of screening on breast cancer mortality... 
What's next? Perspectives and future needs of cervical screening in Europe in the era of molecular testing and vaccinationElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Østre Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
Eur J Cancer 45:2714-21. 2009..To outline the perspectives for future control of cervical cancer in Europe...- [Screening for cancer. International knowledge and Danish practice]Elsebeth Lynge
Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, DK 2200 København N
Ugeskr Laeger 164:2892-7. 2002..Whether or not screening is preferable in a given situation therefore depends on how the advantages are weighted against the disadvantages... - Exposure to tetrachloroethylene in dry cleaning shops in the Nordic countriesElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ann Occup Hyg 55:387-96. 2011..Tetrachloroethylene is the dominant solvent used in dry cleaning worldwide and many workers are potentially exposed. We report here on results of 1296 measurements of tetrachloroethylene undertaken in Nordic dry cleaning shops 1947-2001... - Occupational mortalityElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:153-7. 2011..CONCLUSION: In view of the considerable societal changes which have taken place from the beginning of the 1970s to the turn of the century, surprisingly small changes have taken place in the mortality pattern across social groups... - The Danish National Patient RegisterElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:30-3. 2011..The Danish National Patient Register (NPR) was established in 1977, and it is considered to be the finest of its kind internationally... - Cancer in persons working in dry cleaning in the Nordic countriesElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Environ Health Perspect 114:213-9. 2006..S. findings. Chance, differences in level of exposure to tetrachloroethylene, and confounding may explain the findings. The overall evidence on bladder cancer in dry cleaners is equivocal... - European multi-centre case-control study on risk factors for rare cancers of unknown aetiologyElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 København N, Denmark
Eur J Cancer 41:601-12. 2005..The study showed there is a clear dose-response relationship between alcohol intake and the risk of male breast cancer, and an excess risk of mycosis fungoides among glass formers, pottery and ceramic workers. Further data are expected... - [Recommendations on cancer screening in the European Union. Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention]Elsebeth Lynge
, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Ugeskr Laeger 164:176-8. 2002 - Primary HPV screening for cervical cancer prevention: results from European trialsElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nat Rev Clin Oncol 6:699-706. 2009.... - What happens when organization of cervical cancer screening is delayed or stopped?Elsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
J Med Screen 13:41-6. 2006..Many countries rely on opportunistic screening, and data on its effectiveness are asked for. We assessed the impact on cervical cancer incidence and mortality of opportunistic screening compared with organized screening... - Mammography screening for breast cancer in Copenhagen April 1991-March 1997. Mammography Screening Evaluation GroupE Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, København N, Denmark
APMIS Suppl 83:1-44. 1998..The programme is thus functioning well. The relatively low coverage and the flow in the target population limit the reduction in breast cancer mortality to be expected from the screening programme in the Copenhagen municipality... - Breast cancer incidence after the introduction of mammography screening: what should be expected?Anne Louise Svendsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cancer 106:1883-90. 2006..In the current study, the authors examined breast cancer incidence after the introduction of mammography screening in Denmark... - Why did the breast cancer lymph node status distribution improve in Denmark in the pre-mammography screening period of 1978-1994?Klaus Rostgaard
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Oncol 49:313-21. 2010..g. environmental changes), birth cohort (living conditions over a life time), post-menopausal status (a predictor of less favourable nodal status), and tumour diameter (a marker of detection time)... - A model for determining the effect of mammography service screeningAnne Helene Olsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Acta Oncol 44:120-8. 2005..The effect of this is inseparable from the screening effect. The design is adequate for analysing the effect of mammography service screening on breast cancer mortality... - Fertility pattern does not explain social gradient in breast cancer in denmarkHella Danø
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Cancer 111:451-6. 2004..For incidence, the gradient in the relative risk was 1.38, which changed to 1.26 when fertility history was incorporated and to 1.22 when socioeconomic group was also taken into account... - Does educational level determine screening participation?My von Euler-Chelpin
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cancer Prev 17:273-8. 2008..Never use' was not inversely associated with the level of education, but showed a U-shaped association, even when use of breast imaging outside organized screening was taken into account... - Women's patterns of participation in mammography screening in DenmarkMy von Euler-Chelpin
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5 opg B, Postboks 2099, 1014, København K, Denmark
Eur J Epidemiol 21:203-9. 2006..Behind the urban-rural gradient in programme participation is an even greater gradient in programme protection... - Breast cancer incidence, case-fatality and breast cancer mortality in Danish women using hormone replacement therapy--a prospective observational studyClaudia Stahlberg
Department of Gynaecology, Juliane Marie Centre, H:S Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 34:931-5. 2005 - Socio-demographic determinants of participation in mammography screeningMy von Euler-Chelpin
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
Int J Cancer 122:418-23. 2008..All women in Copenhagen, irrespective of their socio-demographic characteristics, had low participation. Screening programmes have to find ways to handle this urbanity factor... - Increased risk of breast cancer following different regimens of hormone replacement therapy frequently used in EuropeClaudia Stahlberg
Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Cancer 109:721-7. 2004..048). The European traditional HRT regimens were associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. The highest risk was found for the use of continuous combined estrogen and progestin... - Performance of combined clinical mammography and needle biopsy: a nationwide study from DenmarkAllan Jensen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
APMIS 114:884-92. 2006..In discordant cases, our results showed that any of the two tests with a suspicious or malignant result indicated a high risk of cancer, and excisional diagnostic biopsy therefore still has an important role to play... - Minimizing misclassification of hormone users at mammography screeningSisse Helle Njor
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Østre Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Cancer 124:2159-65. 2009..It should be stressed that these results come from a single clinic, and replication in other observational and/or experimental studies is warranted... - Type of hormone therapy and risk of misclassification at mammography screeningSisse H Njor
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
Menopause 18:171-7. 2011..We studied whether the risk of misclassification depends on type of hormone, administration, regimen, and dose of the therapy... - Predicting the risk of a false-positive test for women following a mammography screening programmeSisse Helle Njor
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, opg B, DK 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Med Screen 14:94-7. 2007..To test the method, we used data from two well-established, organized mammography screening programmes offering biennial screening to women aged 50-69 years in Copenhagen and Fyn, Denmark... - Estimating the benefits of mammography screening: the impact of study designAnne Helene Olsen
Department of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Epidemiology 18:487-92. 2007..We report here on a cohort study of the effect of routine mammography on breast cancer mortality, and illustrate how variations in the analytic approach can affect the conclusions... - Performance of systematic and non-systematic ('opportunistic') screening mammography: a comparative study from DenmarkKristine Bihrmann
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, opg B, Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Med Screen 15:23-6. 2008..Evaluation and comparison of the performance of organized and opportunistic screening mammography... - Use of census data for construction of fertility history for Danish womenHella Danø
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 32:435-41. 2004..The authors constructed an extended fertility database for women born in Denmark from 1930 onwards by supplementing the existing Fertility Database with household data from the 1970 census... - Causes of death behind low life expectancy of Danish womenRune Jacobsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 34:432-6. 2006..The authors examined causes of death contributing to the relatively high mortality of Danish women born 1915-45, and evaluated the impact of smoking related causes of death... - Performance of clinical mammography: a nationwide study from DenmarkAllan Jensen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Int J Cancer 119:183-91. 2006..Our data indicate that to increase the accuracy of clinical mammography at the community level, the presence of an experienced radiologist should be prioritized ahead of raising the clinic size... - Register-based studies of cancer screening effectsMy von Euler-Chelpin
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:158-64. 2011..As they cannot be systematically used to test new screening technologies, register-based studies should not be seen as an alternative to randomised controlled trials, but as a supplement... - Human papillomavirus testing and genotyping in cervical screeningMatejka Rebolj
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 11:1023-31. 2011..This problem will pose a major challenge for switching from cytology-based to HPV-based screening. The aim of this article is to discuss the role and the use of HPV tests and HPV genotyping in unvaccinated women... - Performance of diagnostic mammography differs in the United States and DenmarkAllan Jensen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Int J Cancer 127:1905-12. 2010..Performance of community-based diagnostic mammography settings varied markedly between the 2 countries, indicating that it can be further optimized... - Regional trends in breast cancer incidence and mortality in Denmark prior to mammographic screeningA H Andreasen
Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Cancer 70:133-7. 1994..Our study, however, underlies the difficulties inherent in the evaluation of screening programmes without internal control groups... - Breast cancer mortality in mammographic screening in Europe: a review of incidence-based mortality studiesSisse Njor
Department of Public Health, Post Doc, Centre for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Med Screen 19:33-41. 2012..IBM studies include only breast cancer deaths occurring in women with breast cancer diagnosed after their first invitation to screening... - Women's death in Scandinavia--what makes Denmark different?Rune Jacobsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej, Denmark
Eur J Epidemiol 19:117-21. 2004..To compare the mortality for women in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in order to search for clues for the low life expectancy of Danish women... - Balancing sensitivity and specificity: sixteen year's of experience from the mammography screening programme in Copenhagen, DenmarkNicolai Utzon-Frank
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Østre Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 Copenhagen K, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cancer Epidemiol 35:393-8. 2011..Changes over time were related to organisation and technology... - False-positive Human Papillomavirus DNA tests in cervical screening: it is all in a definitionMatejka Rebolj
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 København K, Denmark
Eur J Cancer 47:255-61. 2011..The aim of this paper was to illustrate how the narrow definition affected the measured adverse effects of HPV DNA screening compared with cytology screening... - Data on education: from population statistics to epidemiological researchPalle Bo Pallesen
Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 38:177-83. 2010..Level of education is in many fields of research used as an indicator of social status... 
Breast cancer mortality in Copenhagen after introduction of mammography screening: cohort studyAnne Helene Olsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
BMJ 330:220. 2005..To evaluate the effect on breast cancer mortality during the first 10 years of the mammography service screening programme that was introduced in Copenhagen in 1991...- Hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: the role of progestinsClaudia Stahlberg
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, H S Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre, Denmark
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 82:335-44. 2003..This review focuses on studies published after the latest meta-analysis in 1997, with special attention given to the type of progestin used and the treatment mode, i.e., cyclical or continuous regimen... - Do nonattenders in mammography screening programmes seek mammography elsewhere?Allan Jensen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
Int J Cancer 113:464-70. 2005.... - Restriction of human papillomavirus DNA testing in primary cervical screening to women above age 30: systematic reviewMatejka Rebolj
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cancer Prev 21:73-81. 2012..Adverse effects were less common among women aged at least 30 years than among younger women. However, in older women HPV testing still led to more CIN1/CIN2 diagnoses and false-positive tests than cytology... - Mammography activity in Norway 1983 to 2008Elsebeth Lynge
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Oncol 50:1062-7. 2011..We collected data on pre-program screening activity, and in view of this activity we evaluated the potential impact of the program on breast cancer mortality in Norway... - Trends in sickness absence in DenmarkKristina Johansen
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Østerfarimagsgade 5, opg B, Postboks 2099, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Scand J Work Environ Health 35:334-41. 2009..Using sickness absence data from Denmark, we aimed to show whether this assumption holds true or not... - Determinants of participation in colorectal cancer screening with faecal occult blood testingMy von Euler-Chelpin
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
J Public Health (Oxf) 32:395-405. 2010..In terms of lowering the colorectal cancer mortality, high participation rates are essential, and therefore it is important to understand the barriers to FOBT screening... - The Spanish flu in DenmarkIda Viktoria Kolte
Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Infect Dis 40:538-46. 2008..The background for the better outcome in children aged 1-15 y as well as for the disease immunity in the elderly population should be further investigated... - Do changes in lymph node status distribution explain trends in survival of breast cancer patients in Denmark?Klaus Rostgaard
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cancer Prev 15:398-404. 2006..Changes in lymph node status distribution explained half of the improvement in 5-year relative survival, and seem to be the single most important cause behind the improved survival of breast cancer patients in Denmark... - Prostate cancer is not increased in men with vasectomy in denmarkElsebeth Lynge
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Urol 168:488-90. 2002..The study strongly adds to the evidence that there is no excess prostate cancer risk after vasectomy is done for sterilization... - Socioeconomic status and breast cancer in DenmarkHella Danø
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 32:218-24. 2003..We addressed these questions by studying the socioeconomic distribution of breast cancer incidence and breast cancer mortality in Danish women during the last 25 years... - Introduction of human papillomavirus vaccination in Nordic countriesBente Braad Sander
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Vaccine 30:1425-33. 2012..The aim of this paper was to provide an update of the current status of introduction of HPV vaccine into the childhood vaccination programs in this region... - Human papillomavirus testing in primary cervical screening and the cut-off level for hybrid capture 2 tests: systematic reviewMatejka Rebolj
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
BMJ 342:d2757. 2011..To determine the trade-off between the sensitivity and the specificity for high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia at hybrid capture 2 cut-off values above the standard ≥ 1 relative light units/cut-off level (rlu/co)... - Decision making and co-operation between stakeholders within the process of sick leave. A case study in a Danish municipalityKristina Johansen
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark E mail
J Interprof Care 25:59-65. 2011..Rather than forcing co-operation, policymakers should increase the stakeholders' abilities and improve the conditions that create the low level of trust and hamper the willingness to co-operate... - Incidence of cervical cancer after several negative smear results by age 50: prospective observational studyMatejka Rebolj
Erasmus MC, Department of Public Health, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands
BMJ 338:b1354. 2009..To determine the incidence of cervical cancer after several negative cervical smear tests at different ages... - Tumour size distribution in mammography screeningS H Njor
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Breast 14:329-32. 2005..We recommend that the entire tumour size distribution is used to evaluate the ability of a programme to detect small breast cancers, instead of only point estimates as has previously been the practice... - Breast cancer incidence after the start of mammography screening in DenmarkA H Olsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Cancer 88:362-5. 2003..Inclusion of screen-detected ductal carcinoma in situ cases did not change these results. The experiences from Copenhagen and Fyn show that organised mammography screening can operate without overdiagnosis of breast cancer... - Incomplete follow-up of positive HPV tests: overview of randomised controlled trials on primary cervical screeningM Rebolj
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
Br J Cancer 103:310-4. 2010..We assessed the compliance and its impact on > or =CIN3 detection in all eight randomised controlled trials (RCT) with published baseline-round data... - Age-period-cohort modelling of breast cancer incidence in the Nordic countriesK Rostgaard
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Stat Med 20:47-61. 2001.... - Breast density and outcome of mammography screening: a cohort studyA H Olsen
Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Cancer 100:1205-8. 2009..81) for BC incidence, 0.60 (95% CI 0.43-0.84) for case fatality, and 1.78 (95% CI 1.17-2.72) for BC mortality. The study shows that BC in women with M/D breasts is more frequent, but on average less severe, than in women with F breasts... - Use of history science methods in exposure assessment for occupational health studiesK Johansen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Occup Environ Med 62:434-41. 2005..To show the power of history science methods for exposure assessment in occupational health studies, using the dry cleaning industry in Denmark around 1970 as the example... - Early outcome of mammography screening in Copenhagen 1991-99I Vejborg
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, H S Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
J Med Screen 9:115-9. 2002..To evaluate the early outcome of an organised mammography screening programme in an area with little opportunistic screening... - Long term mortality trends behind low life expectancy of Danish womenR Jacobsen
Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:205-8. 2002..To examine the long time mortality trends of women in Denmark... - Seventeen-years overview of breast cancer inside and outside screening in DenmarkLaia Domingo
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Oncol 52:48-56. 2013..We aimed to analyze 17 years of breast cancer detection rates inside and outside screening in two Danish regions, emphasizing the influence of organizational differences of screening programs on the outcomes... - Non-participation in screening: the case of cervical cancer in DenmarkPierre Antoine Dugué
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Prev Med 54:266-9. 2012..To determine the impact of comprehensiveness of cytology registration on the proportion of cervical cancer patients without a recent screening history... - Frequency of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia treatment in a well-screened populationSidsel Svennekjaer Barken
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Cancer 130:2438-44. 2012..Screening, though effective in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer, leads also to a considerable burden of CIN treatment. Future trends in CIN treatment should be closely monitored... - Clinical impact of introduction of mammography screening in a non-screening country with special reference to the Copenhagen service mammography screening programmeU B Tange
Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Surg 91:293-303. 2002 - Breast cancer with different prognostic characteristics developing in Danish women using hormone replacement therapyC Stahlberg
Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Juliane Marie Centre, H S Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Cancer 91:644-50. 2004..For receptor status, the risk with HRT was statistically significantly higher for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer compared to receptor-negative breast cancer... - Immunosuppression and risk of cervical cancerPierre Antoine Dugué
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 13:29-42. 2013..Identifying those groups of women likely to fail in clearing persistent human papillomavirus infections would help individualize screening guidelines and target immune-associated factors in the cervical cancer etiology... - Hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: the role of progestinsClaudia Stahlberg
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, H S Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre, Denmark
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 82:335-44. 2003..This review focuses on studies published after the latest meta-analysis in 1997, with special attention given to the type of progestin used and the treatment mode, i.e. cyclical or continuous regimen... - Intentions and realities in rehabilitation service in DenmarkPalle Bo Pallesen
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Soc Work Disabil Rehabil 10:82-95. 2011..The findings indicated that rehabilitation benefits were not paid only for planned rehabilitation periods, and that not all recipients followed the legally required plan... - [Cervical cancer screening]Elsebeth Lynge
Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Panum Instituttet, , Blegdamsvej 3,
Ugeskr Laeger 164:171-3. 2002 - Controlling sickness absence: a study of changes in the Danish sickness absence legislation since 1973Kristina Johansen
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Østerfarimagsgade 5, opg B, Postboks 2099, DK 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Health Policy 86:109-18. 2008..To outline the principles underlying changes overtime in entitlement to sickness absence benefit in Denmark... - Compliance with European guidelines for diagnostic mammography in a decentralized health-care settingA Jensen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Radiol 46:140-7. 2005..The situation in private diagnostic mammography clinics may cause concern, as our study showed that the majority of these clinics did not meet the activity volume requirements... - A modified Nottingham prognostic index for breast cancer patients diagnosed in Denmark 1978-1994K Rostgaard
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Oncol 40:838-43. 2001.... - Employment effects of the Danish rehabilitation benefitPalle B Pallesen
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 40:325-32. 2012..As benefits constitute a burden for tax payers, attention has been given to measure the effect. We used register data to assess the employment effect of rehabilitation benefit; the most liberal social benefit in Denmark... - Determinants of successful implementation of population-based cancer screening programmesElsebeth Lynge
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cancer 48:743-8. 2012..Successful implementation of a cancer screening programme requires societal acceptance and local ownership along with the best evidence-based practise and verification of adequate performance in each phase of implementation... - Contraceptive use in random samples of Greenlandic and Danish women--changes from 1986 to 1988S K Kjaer
Danish Cancer Registry, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Soc Med 19:39-43. 1991..This pattern was independent of the lifetime number of sexual partners. Neither in Greenland nor in Denmark did the mean lifetime number of sexual partners change from 1986 to 1988... - Occupational risks for uveal melanoma results from a case-control study in nine European countriesJean-Michel Lutz
Registre Genevois des Tumeurs, Geneva, Switzerland
Cancer Causes Control 16:437-47. 2005..CONCLUSION: Our study does overall not support an association between occupational sunlight exposure and risk of uveal melanoma. The finding of an excess risk of eye melanoma in cooks in several European countries is intriguing... - [Mammographic screening in the municipality of Copenhagen 1991-1997. Evaluation of the preoperative assessment]Lone Bech Christensen
Patologiafdelingen, Diagnostisk Center, H:S Rigshospitalet,
Ugeskr Laeger 164:191-5. 2002..DISCUSSION: The preoperative diagnostic assessment improved during the evaluation period. The triple test was used more often over time, the validity of FNAC and the malignant/benign ratio of surgery increased... - [Benefits of breast cancer screening]Elsebeth Lynge
Ugeskr Laeger 169:1481; author reply 1481. 2007 - A pooled analysis of bladder cancer case-control studies evaluating smoking in men and womenDiana Puente
Respiratory and Environmental Health Research Unit, Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM, 80 Dr Aiguader Rd, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
Cancer Causes Control 17:71-9. 2006..CONCLUSION: These results do not support the hypothesis that women have a higher relative risk of smoking-related bladder cancer than men... - Cancer mortality in workers exposed to organochlorine compounds in the pulp and paper industry: an international collaborative studyDavid McLean
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Center for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Environ Health Perspect 114:1007-12. 2006.... - Breast cancer incidence and mortality in the Nordic capitals, 1970-1998. Trends related to mammography screening programmesSven Törnberg
Cancer Screening Unit, Oncologic Centre, Karolinska University Hospital, S 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
Acta Oncol 45:528-35. 2006..The study showed that the population-based breast cancer mortality trend is too crude a measure to detect the effect of screening on breast cancer mortality during the first years after the start of a programme... - [Mammographic screening in the county of Copenhagen. Clinical consequences of the first three screening rounds]Ulla Brix Tange
Onkologisk Klinik 5073, Finsencentret, H:S Rigshospitalet,
Ugeskr Laeger 164:1036-40. 2002..DISCUSSION: A marked improvement was seen in the prognostic and treatment-related characteristics of the screen-detected breast cancer cases, as compared to breast cancer cases from the same area before screening was initiated... - [Overdiagnosis or wrong statement method?]Sisse Helle Njor
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 124:2800; author reply 2800-1. 2004 - Reliability of data from next-of-kin: results from a case-control study of occupational and lifestyle risk factors for cancerLinda Kaerlev
Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Am J Ind Med 44:298-303. 2003..Use of surrogate responders often needs to be considered in case-control studies with a high case fatality... - Occupation and bladder cancer among men in Western EuropeManolis Kogevinas
Respiratory and Environmental Health Research Unit, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
Cancer Causes Control 14:907-14. 2003..We examined which occupations and industries are currently at high risk for bladder cancer in men... - Alcohol drinking may increase risk of breast cancer in men: a European population-based case-control studyPascal Guénel
INSERM, Unité 170, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Cancer Causes Control 15:571-80. 2004..We have investigated the role of alcohol drinking in male breast cancer using data collected in a population-based case-control study on seven rare cancers, conducted in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden... - [Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer 2]Jens Peter Garne
Ugeskr Laeger 170:2596; author reply 2596. 2008 - [Mammography screening without overdiagnosis]Anne Helene Olsen
Ugeskr Laeger 166:3737; author reply 3737-8. 2004 - [Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer]Jens Peter Garne
Ugeskr Laeger 170:2044; author reply 2045. 2008 - [Mammography screening in the county of Copenhagen. Results of the first three screening rounds]Ulla Brix Tange
Onkologisk Klinik 5073, Finsencentret, H:S Rigshospitalet,
Ugeskr Laeger 164:1048-52. 2002..The Copenhagen screening programme conforms to international quality assurance guidelines for process evaluation... - Overdiagnosis, sojourn time, and sensitivity in the Copenhagen mammography screening programAnne Helene Olsen
Cancer Research UK, Department of Epidemiology, Mathematics, and Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
Breast J 12:338-42. 2006..A modest overdiagnosis was estimated for the Copenhagen screening program, deriving almost exclusively from the first screen. The CIs were very broad, however, and estimates from larger datasets are warranted... - European Commission's proposal for a council recommendation on cancer screeningMarc Arbyn
BMJ 327:289-90. 2003 - Risk factors for extrahepatic biliary tract carcinoma in men: medical conditions and lifestyle: results from a European multicentre case-control studyWolfgang Ahrens
Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, University Bremen, Germany
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 19:623-30. 2007..To identify risk factors of carcinoma of the extrahepatic biliary tract in men... - [Degree of coverage of Danish health sciences research in the Science Citation Index, 1998]Peter Ingwersen
Danmarks Biblioteksskole, Institut for Informationsstudier,
Ugeskr Laeger 166:3493-7. 2004