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Two hundred years of cancer epidemiology in Norway-before and during the NOFE era

I. Gram,E. Lund

Published 2015 in Unknown venue

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In this chapter, we describe and reflect on some selected accomplishments made in cancer epidemiology during the last 200 years in Norway. We have a special emphasis on the last 25 years i.e. during NOFE’s lifetime. We have tried to do this in a global context. Norwegian epidemiologists founded NOFE in 1990. At that time, the list of accomplishments in cancer epidemiology was not so extensive. Researchers in cancer epidemiology have made a lot of progress during the last 25 years. Worldwide, epidemiologists and data from Norway have played important roles and increased this research knowledge. It is essential that this research continue. Deaths from cancer will be the most common cause in Norway in the near future. Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking should still be the main cancer control priority. We have chosen the relationship between smoking and cancer to picture the change that has been happening. In the 1990s results from single Norwegian cohort studies were published. Today, it is more common that data from the same cohorts are included in larger European, international and consortium collaborations. Results from Norwegian cohort studies have contributed to knowledge necessary for cancer prevention, as independent studies and in collaborations with researchers from other countries and fields in science. This chapter will introduce young researchers to some of the studies that are available for continued cancer research. We must apologize to those who played key roles in discoveries we have not described and whom we fail to mention.

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