Biobank for individuals with prostate cancer

This study is part of the collection Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Description

The cohort consists of 900 individuals with prostate cancer who came to an oncology center in southern Sweden for therapy. The collection of this study started in 2007 and is ongoing. A control group of 1,000 men recruited among accompanying spouses of female cancer patients also belong to this study. The participants have donated blood and answered questions relating to previous medications, height, weight, alcohol consumption and smoking.

Purpose:

To study risk factors for prostate cancer

Subject area

HEALTH (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Cancer and Oncology, Other Clinical Medicine (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

drinking behaviour, smoking, cancer, case-control studies, prostatic neoplasms, blood, height (physiology), weight (physiology), epihealth_skåne, epihealth, southern sweden, scania

Principal organisation

Lund University

Responsible department/unit

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Identifiers

SND-ID: EXT 0138

Description

The cohort consists of 900 individuals with prostate cancer who came to an oncology center in southern Sweden for therapy. The collection of this study started in 2007 and is ongoing. A control group of 1,000 men recruited among accompanying spouses of female cancer patients also belong to this study. The participants have donated blood and answered questions relating to previous medications, height, weight, alcohol consumption and smoking.

Purpose:

To study risk factors for prostate cancer

Time period(s) investigated

2007 — ongoing

Unit of analysis

Population

individuals with prostate cancer who came to an oncology center in southern Sweden for therapy.

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Non-probability

Subject area

HEALTH (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Cancer and Oncology, Other Clinical Medicine (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

drinking behaviour, smoking, cancer, case-control studies, prostatic neoplasms, blood, height (physiology), weight (physiology), epihealth_skåne, epihealth, southern sweden, scania

Contact for questions about the data

Håkan Olsson

Is part of collection at SND

Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

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Dataset 1

Biobank for prostate cancer-cases

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Mode of collection: Measurements and tests

Time period(s) for data collection: 2007

Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire

Time period(s) for data collection: 2007

Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Number of individuals/objects

900

Dataset 2

Biobank for prostate cancer-controls

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Mode of collection: Measurements and tests

Time period(s) for data collection: 2007

Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire

Time period(s) for data collection: 2007

Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Number of individuals/objects

1000

Published: 2014-12-11
Last updated: 2019-11-15