Health and quality of life
All patients with cancer receive some form of treatment, either surgery and/or radiotherapy, chemotherapy or palliative treatment. Although these treatments improve survival or quality of life, they can also cause harmful complications that can affect life after treatment.
We want to understand more about the extent and burden of such late effects, so that the treatment and cancer care can be even better and more precise.
The population surveys
Through the population-based health survey, the health and quality of life of people both with and without cancer will be surveyed. In this way, we gain knowledge about how common the various late effects are, and who is affected, for example based on the treatment they have received.
It can be very demanding to live with late effects after cancer treatment, and it is important for the patient group that we get an overview of the burden and duration of late effects and how these affect the quality of life. In this way, treatment and follow-up can be even better in the long term.
The research projects
The Population Survey on Prostate Cancer
Research project on health, bowel function and quality of life
Long-term effects of breast cancer treatment
Stress management after breast cancer
Covid-19 and cancerin the Nordic countries
Cardiac catheterization of children with congenital heart defects