Tom Børge Johannesen

Tom Børge Johannesen is Deputy Head of the Department of Clinical Research and Head of the Medical Group. He is responsible for the medical content of the main database and quality registers. Johannesen is a specialist in oncology, and has completed a PhD with the thesis "Aspects of Central Nervous System Tumours in Norway".

Project manager for the project on patient-reported data.

Representative in the NORDCAN group, a database of cancer statistics for the Nordic countries.

Study of the use of radiation therapy in Norway

Projects in prostate cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, kidney cancer and bone tumors.

Cancer incidence, treatment and results in the Nordic countries

COVID-19 and cancer course

The project seeks to shed light on cancer patients' risk of coronavirus infection and whether these patients are exposed to a more serious course and death than the rest of the population.