Project Reports

Grants Awarded in 2015 (some projects have been extended and additional reports will be uploaded continuously)
Principal Investigator	Project
Abildgaard, Niels	Prolonged Bone Protection in Multiple Myeloma - the Magnolia Study.
de Nully Brown, Peter	Clinical trial-based precision medicine in the Nordic countries for patients with aggressive lymphomas.
Dillner, Joakim	Optimisation of HPV-based cancer control strategies
Engholm, Gerda	NORDCAN development; Differences in cancer survival in the Nordic countries: the role of stage at presentation, treatment, comorbidity and education
Giwercman, Aleksander	The impact of testicular cancer and its treatment on the health of the offspring.
Grønberg, Bjørn H.	A Randomized Phase II Study Comparing Two Schedules of Hyperfractionated Thoracic Radiotherapy in Limited Disease Small-Cell Lung Cancer.
Kjærheim, Kristina	Lifestyle and occupational cancer risk - adjusting for alcohol and tobacco.
Lagergren, Jesper	Influence of obesity surgery on cancer risk in a Nordic population-based cohort study.
Li, Jiong	Maternal diseases during pregnancy and childhood leukemia in the offspring: a cohort study in 8 million children in five Nordic countries
Lindberg, Eva Hellström	Nordic Collaborative Clinical Database Initiative and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation Project for Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Lynge, Elsebeth	Impact of screening on cancer incidence trends and age-patterns
Paerregaard, Anders	The incidence of cancer and mortality in Scandinavian paediatric inflammatory bowel disease during a 25 years period (1990-2015) - A population-based multicentre study from four countries
Peltomäki, Päivi	Search for Novel High-Penetrance Susceptibility Genes for Familial Colorectal Cancer from Finnish and Danish Cohorts
Schmiegelow, Kjeld	CLEAR: Individualized Central nervous system therapy of acute Lymphoblastic leukemia to increase Efficacy And Reduce toxicity

Grants Awarded in 2014
Principal Investigator	Project
Abildgaard, Niels	Prolonged Bone Protection in Multiple Myeloma - the Magnolia Study.
Bjørge, Tone	Pregnancy characteristics and maternal cancer: A joint Nordic study
de Nully Brown, Peter	Biomarker-driven, risk-adapted trials in aggressive lymphomas and Hodgkin lymphoma
Dillner, Joakim	Optimisation of HPV-based cancer control strategies
Fuxe, Jonas	Exploring immune cell properties of cancer cells as an early sign of metastasis in Swedish and Finnish breast cancer patients
Grotmol, Tom	Association between gene variation and the response to chemotherapy for testicular cancer - clinical outcomes and adverse effec
Hägglund, Hans	Potential hazards for hematopoietic stem cell donors
Jönsson, Göran	Molecular epidemiology of familial ocular and cutaneous malignant melanoma; a Swedish-Danish collaboration
Kjærheim, Kristina	Lifestyle and occupational cancer risk - adjusting for alcohol and tobacco
Lagergren, Jesper	Influence of obesity surgery on cancer risk in a Nordic population-based cohort study
Lindberg, Eva Hellström	Nordic MDS Group (NMDSG) Clinical Trial program and new biobank and molecular platform to improve outcome for patients with MDS
Mustjoki, Satu	The nordic CML study group: Immunological evaluation of factors related to the successful therapy discontinuation
Nordin, Karin	Phys-Can. Physical training and cancer
Peltomäki, Päivi	Search for novel high-penetrance susceptibility genes for familial cancer from Finnish and Danish cohorts

Principal Investigator	Project
Grants Awarded in 2013
Barkardottir, Rosa Bjork	Molecular Epidemiology of Familial Breast Cancer in the Nordic Countries
Bjørge, Tone	Pregnancy characteristics and maternal cancer: A joint Nordic study
Dickman, Paul	Nordic cancer survival query system: A web-based platform for presenting estimates of cancer patient survival to patients
Dillner, Joakim	Optimisation of HPV-based cancer control strategies
Grotmol, Tom	Norwegian-Swedish genome wide association study of testicular cancer with special focus on coding regions
Hellström Lindberg, Eva	Nordic MDS Group (NMDSG) Clinical Trial program and new biobank and molecular platform to improve outcome for patients with MDS
Johnsen, Hans Erik	Prognostic Classification and Prediction of Clinical Resistance in Multiple Myeloma - EMN-02 / NMSG 19/10
Jönsson, Göran	Molecular epidemiology of familial ocular and cutaneous malignant melanoma; a Swedish-Danish collaboration
Lagergren, Jesper	Influence of obesity surgery on cancer risk in a Nordic population-based cohort study
Li, Jiong	Medication during pregnancy and cancer risk in offspring: a cohort study in 2 million children in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland
Mustjoki, Satu	The nordic CML study group: Immunological evaluation of factors related to the successful therapy discontinuation
Nordin, Karin	PhysCan-Physical training and cancer
Peltomäki, Päivi	Search for novel high-penetrance susceptibility genes for familial colorectal cancer from Finnish and Danish cohorts
Pukkala, Eero	Work and cancer: in-depth studies initiated by the NOCCA project
Schmiegelow, Kjeld	Exploring and improving thiopurine/methotrexate maintenance therapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Tammela, Teuvo	Prostate cancer screening in Finland and Sweden - why is the efficacy so different?
Wiklund, Fredrik	Genetic epidemiology of prostate cancer prognosis

Principal Investigator	Project
Grants Awarded in 2012
Barkardottir, Rosa Bjork	Molecular Epidemiology of Familial Breast Cancer in the Nordic Countries: Search for Novel Genes in High-Risk Families
Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise	HER2 positive breast cancers and drug response; a Finnish-Norwegian collaboration
Grotmol, Tom	Norwegian-Swedish genome wide association study of testicular cancer with special focus on coding regions
Hellström Lindberg, Eva	Nordic MDS Group (NMDSG) Clinical Trial program and new biobank and molecular platform to improve outcome for patients with MDS
Johnsen, Hans Erik	Prognostic Classification and Prediction of Clinical Resistance in Multiple Myeloma - EMN-02 / NMSG19/10
Jönsson, Göran	Molecular epidemiology of familial ocular and cutaneous malignant melanoma
Li, Jiong	Medication during pregnancy and cancer risk in offspring: a cohort study in 2 million children in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland
Lynge, Elsebeth	Mammography: from a pragmatic to an individualised screening schedule
Mustjoki, Satu	The Nordic CML study group: Immunological evaluation of factors related to the successful therapy discontinuation
Pukkala, Eero	Work and cancer: in-depth studies initiated by the NOCCA project
Schmiegelow, Kjeld	Exploring and improving thiopurine/ methotrexate maintenance therapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Tammela, Teuvo	Prostate cancer screening in Finland & Sweden – Why is the efficacy so different?
Wiklund, Fredrik	Genetic epidemiology of prostate cancer prognosis

Principal Investigator	Project
Grants Awarded in 2011
Barkardottir, Rosa Bjork	Molecular Epidemiology of Familial Breast Cancer in the Nordic Countries: Using Next Generation Sequencing in the Search for Novel Genes in Hight-Risk Breast Cancer Famillies
Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise	Her2+ breast cancers and drug reponse; a Finnish-Norwegian collaboration
Bretthauer, Michael	NordICC – The Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer
Brown, Peter de Nully	The Nordic Lymphoma Group: a bench-to-bedside approach to improve management and outcome of patients with malignant lymphoproliferative diseases in the Nordic countries
Høyer, Morten	Non-Surgical treatment of colorectal liver metastases
Lynge, Elsebeth	Mammography: From a pragmatic to an individualised screening schedule
Oldenburg, Jan	Prevention of germ cell cancer in Scandinavian males with testicular dysgenesis syndrome
Pukkala, Eero	Work and cancer: in-depth studies initiated by the NOCCA project
Rosenquist, Richard	Comprehensive Molecular Screening and Large-Scale Data Integration in a Population-Based Cohort of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Wiklund, Fredrik	Genetic epidemiology of prostate cancer prognosis

Principal Investigator	Project
Grants Awarded in 2010
Brown, Peter de Nully	Nordic Lymphoma Group: A Nordic collaboration to combat malignant lymphoma
Hemminki, Kari	Collaboration on familial cancer in the Nordic countries
Lindberg, Eva Hellstrøm	Investigator-initiated Nordic MDS Group GCP trials to improve outcome for patients with MDS and associated leukemias, and increasing biological understanding through establishment of a Nordic MDS experimental platform
Lynge, Elsebeth	Mammography - from a pragmatic to an individualised screening schedule
Mellqvist, Ulf-Henrik	Nordic myeloma study group (NMSG) - organisation and trials
Rosenquist, Richard	Comprehensive Molecular Screening and Large-Scale Data Integration in a Population-Based Cohort of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Principal Investigator	Project
Grants Awarded in 2009
Brown, Peter de Nully	Nordic Lymphoma Group - A Nordic Collaboration to combat malignant lymphoma
Brune, Mats	Phase III Clinical Study of Allogenic Stem Cell Transplantation with Reduced Conditioning (RICT) versus Best Standard of Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in First Complete Remission
Grotmol, Tom	A large population-based Swedish-Norwegian genetic association study of testicular cancer
Hemminki, Kari	Collaboration on familial cancer in the nordic countries
Hoff, Geir	NordICC - the Nordic European initiative on Colorectal Cancer
Jadersten, Martin	Pathogenesis and prognosis of MDS 5q-syndrome
Nevanlinna, Heli	Molecular Epdemiology of breast cancer risk and progression
Rosenquist, Richard	Comprehensive Molecular Screening and Large- Scale Data integration in a population-Based Cohort of Chronic -lymphocytic Leukemia
Sørbye, Halfdan	The Nordic PDEC study. A retrospective Nordic study on poorly-differentiated gastrointestinal neuroendocrine cancers
Waage, Anders	Nordic Myeloma Strudy Group - organisation and clinical trials

Principal Investigator	Project
Grants Awarded in 2008
Alvegaard, Thor	Scandinavian Sarcoma Group (SSG). Centralized registration – an SSG musculoskeletal research and multidisciplinary approach
Hellström Lindberg, Eva	Investigator-initiated Nordic MDS Group GCP trials aiming at improving outcome for patients with MDS and increasing biological understanding of the disease
Hoff, Geir	NordICC – The Nordic initiative on colorectal cancer
Rosenquist, Richard	Scandinavian Population-Based Characterization of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Importance of Molecular Characteristics and Etiological Factors for Prognosis
Rylander, Lars	Health outcomes among children whose fathers were treated for cancer. A register-based study comparing assisted and non-assisted conceptions.
Widmark, Anders	Follow and analysis up of the SPCG-7/SFUO-3 randomised trial, anti androgen treatment with or without Radiotherapy of locally advanced Prostate Cancer.Sub studies; Prostate biopsies 3 years after treatment, Mechanisms for rectal toxicity,and Blood collection for genetic prediction of side-effects.