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BEDREHELSE-Bedre helse og livskvalitet

Perfluorinated compounds and type 2 diabetes: gene environment interactions in the Norwegian Women and Cancer study (NOWAC)

Målet med prosjektet er å undersøke eventuelle sammenheng mellom type 2 diabetes og organiske miljøgifter med forskjellige metoder. Vi skal blant annet bruke blodprøver og spørreskjemaopplysninger fra norske kvinner som deltar i befolkningsstudien Kvinner og Kreft. Siden prosjektet startet har vi...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MAMMOGRAFI-Evaluering av Mammografiprogr

Evaluation of the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program

To provide a robust and comprehensive evaluation several complex methodological issues will be thoroughly addressed and discussed: 1. The low statistical power due to the small size of the Norwegian population. 2. The influence of factors other than scree ning on breast cancer incidence and morta...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Exposure expression profiles in a prospective cancer study - The Norwegian Women and Cancer postgenome cohort

From 1991 women in Norway has been recruited to participate in NOWAC by postal questionnaires. They are drawn at random from the population through the central person register. Follow-up on cancer and death is based on linkage to national registers. Altog ether 150 000 women aged 30-70 years at r...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. mellom Norge og Frankrike

Lund, Eiliv Aurora 2007-08 Fransk-norsk forskerutveksling

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Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILGENHEL-Miljø, gener og helse

Food from the sea - health effects of organic pollutants and essential nutrients from marine food. The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study.

In the Norwegian Women and Cancer study (NOWAC), detailed dietary information is available in addition to a large biobank. Altogether 68 000 women aged 41-70 years at recruitment have been followed up for cancer incidence and mortality through linkages to national registers based on the unique n...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Hormone replacement therapy, gene expression profile and breast cancer

The project is mainly a collaboration between the University of Tromsø and INSERM, France. We will pool together information from the E3N cohort of about 100 000 French female teachers with the 150 000 participants in the Norwegian Women and Cancer study , NOWAC, both started in the early nineti...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KREFTSATS-Særutlysning kreftmidler, historikk

The Norwegian Women and Cancer post genome cohort study - NOWAC

The NOWAC post-genome study is an integrated collaboration between epidemiologists, clinicians and basic genetic scientists. The cohort is an extension of the existing nationwide NOWAC prospective study with 130,000 participants. 1. During the years 2003 -6 we will build a "core cohort" of 50,00...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

UV-eksponering, vitamin D status og helse

Vitamin D har vært satt i sammenheng med sykdommer knyttet til kalsium metabolismen (rakitt, osteoporose, brudd) og kreft (særlig brystkreft). Et hovedproblem har vært mangelen på studier med eksposisjonsdata for vitamin D både fra kosten og UV stråling i samme undersøkelse. Norsk befolkning er ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GRUSYK-Grunnleggende sykdomsmekanisme

The Norwegian Women and Cancer post-genome cohort study, NOWAC

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Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KREFTSATS-Særutlysning kreftmidler, historikk

The "Norwegian Women and Cancer Study" - a representative population based prospective study

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Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2004

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa