• Case control study for soft tissue sarcoma

The etiology of soft tissue sarcomas is largely unknown. For this study, which started in 1988 and still is in progress, information has been collected from individuals with soft tissue sarcomas and also from healthy con...

• Risk factor study in young women of high risk for breast or ovarian cancer

Participants in this cohort are women identified from medical records and family records from the Department of Oncology , Lund. The inclusion criteria is that the woman should belong to families with a high risk of deve...

• BRCA1/2- mutationcarriers

The cohort, which is part of an international collaboration with IBCCS and Cimba, is covering all (both men and women) who have undergone mutation testing for BRCA1 or 2 in the Southern health region since 1993. It is th...

• Case control study of risk factors of melanoma

Since 1988, individuals affected by melanoma in Southern Sweden has been interviewed and the cohort now consists of 3000 cases. For each case, two controls are randomly selected from the Skåne population registry and mat...

• MISS-cohort, Melanoma in Southern Sweden

The MISS cohort started in 1990 when 40 000 women between 26 and 65 in Skåne were randomly selected to participate in an interview about the risk factors for malignant melanoma and breast cancer. 29 508 (approximately 74...

• Wife and husband DNA cohort

The cohort was recruited among accompanying spouses of cancer patients at the Oncology Clinic at Lund University Hospital. The study will be used as a reference population in genetic studies and in studies on biomarkers....

• The Salut Programme

In 2005, the health authorities of Region Västerbotten initiated the Salut Programme. The initiative got its name from the word “salutogenic” as the basic idea is to promote processes that give children and their parents...

• Fertility among female hairdressers

The study investigated whether working as a hairdresser has a negative impact on fertility, measured as time to pregnancy and miscarriage risk. Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were sent to 5289 Swedish hairdres...

• The cohort of 60-year-old men and women

The cohort of 60-year old men and women consists of every third man and woman residing in Stockholm county, who during one year (1997 01 07 - 1998 0630) reached the age of 60, and who subsequently was invited to a carefu...

• The Swedish Mammography Cohort, SMC

The Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) is a large population-based cohort of over 60,000 women in the counties of Uppsala and Västmanland which is performed by the National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska I...