Elsebeth Lynge

TL;DR: Current users of HRT experience a two- to four-fold increased risk of breast cancer with various prognostic characteristics, both the favourable and nonfavourable types.

TL;DR: The start of a screening programme with a high recall rate in this area resulted in a detection rate above 1%, and the Copenhagen programme met or exceeded most of the interim measures recommended in the European Guidelines.

TL;DR: Outcomes of the first regional consultation of the ICSN held in Agartala, India, which included discussions from cancer screening programmes from Denmark, the Netherlands, USA, and Bangladesh are reported.

TL;DR: The principles underlying changes overtime in entitlement to sickness absence benefit in Denmark are outlined to outline the guiding principles of the reforms have been financial savings in combination with an assumption that human behaviour can be controlled through bureaucratic administration with focus on monitoring and evaluation.

TL;DR: The data indicate that cancer patients have no general susceptibility to develop new malignant tumors, although high rates may be found for particular sites sharing common risk factors, and the occurrence of one cancer does not appear to protect against developing a new cancer.