Informasjon om forskningsaktiviteten

Janusmaterialet anvendes per 2012 i forskningsprosjekter som studerer årsaker til kreft i livmorhals, hud, hjerne, lever, skjoldbruskkjertel, spiserør, bryst, bukspyttkjertel - og som studerer tidlig markører for kreft i eggstokker og prostata.

Oversikt over pågående Janus-prosjekter finner du her.

Norge

Association between Serum Hydroxyvitamin D and Survival in Cancer Patients, using serum samples collected long time prior to and at the time of diagnosis
Principal investigator:  Steinar Tretli, Cancer Registry of Norway

Epitelial eggstokkreft og analyse av cancer antigen 125 (CA125) og human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) i prediagnostiske prøver
Principal investigator: Randi Gislefoss, Cancer Registry of Norway

Molecular mechanisms of androgen action and prostate carcinogenesis
Principal investigator: Fahri Saatcioglu, Universitetet i Oslo

Micronutrients and prostate cancer
Principal investigator: Tone Bjørge, University of Bergen

Analyse av komponenter i serumprøver fra individer som senere utviklet myelomatose (benmargskreft).
Principal investigator: Gaute Brede, NTNU

Pre-diagnostic hormone levels and development of testicular germ cell tumors in the Janus Serum Bank Cohort
Principal Investigator: Elisabete Weiderpass Vainio, Cancer Registry of Norway

Europa

Endogenous hormons and prostate cancer
Principal investigator:  Naomi Allen, University of Oxford, UK

Prediagnostic allergy and immune-related biomarkers in glioma risk and survival
Principal Investigator: Judith Schwartzbaum, Ohio State University, USA and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Cohort based studies in Molecular Epidemiology of Brain tumors
Principal investigator: Beatrice Melin, Umeå University, Sweden

Are antibodies against viruses in the papova family associated to development of skin cancer
Principal investigator: Joakim Dillner, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

USA

Male Breast Cancer Pooling Project
Principal investigator: Louise Brinton, NCI, USA  

Serum Organochlorine levels and risk of selected cancers
Principal investigator:  Larry Engel, NCI/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center/University of North Carolina/USA

Serum Organochlorine Levels and Primary Liver Cancer: a Nested Case-Control Study
Principal investigator:  Larry Engel, NCI/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center/University of North Carolina/USA

Serum concentrations of polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbon chemicals and risk of thyroid cancer
Principal investigator:  Mary Ward, NIH/NCI, USA

Australia

The InterSCOPE Study: International Collaboration on squamous cell cancer of the Esophagus
Principal investigator: Freddy Sitas, Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, New South Wales, Australia