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Elsebeth Lynge
Researcher at University of Copenhagen
Publications - 484
Citations - 19048
Elsebeth Lynge is an academic researcher from University of Copenhagen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 461 publications receiving 17055 citations. Previous affiliations of Elsebeth Lynge include Statens Serum Institut & Karolinska Institutet.
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Fertility pattern does not explain social gradient in breast cancer in denmark.
Hella Danø,Kasper D. Hansen,Per Anker Jensen,Jørgen Holm Petersen,Rune Jacobsen,Marianne Ewertz,Elsebeth Lynge +6 more
TL;DR: Fertility history varied considerably across socioeconomic group, where 38% of the academics were childless at the age of 30, in contrast to only 8% of women in agriculture, and the academics had the highest risk of breast cancer andWomen in agriculture had the lowest risk.
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Second cancer following cancer of the digestive system in Denmark, 1943-80.
TL;DR: That cancers of the uterine corpus and ovary were significantly increased supports the notion that common risk factors, such as diet and endogenous hormones, influence the development of these cancers.
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Age-period-cohort modelling of breast cancer incidence in the Nordic countries.
TL;DR: Danish women born in the 20th century seem to have been exposed to an increasing load of cohort borne breast cancer risk factors not experienced to the same extent by Norwegian women, whereas they were seemingly subjected to the the same period effects.
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Cancer in Persons Working in Dry Cleaning in the Nordic Countries
Elsebeth Lynge,Aage Andersen,Lars Rylander,Håkan Tinnerberg,Marja-Liisa Lindbohm,Eero Pukkala,Pål Richard Romundstad,Per Anker Jensen,Lene Clausen,Kristina Johansen +9 more
TL;DR: Dry-cleaning work in the Nordic countries during the period when tetrachloroethylene was the dominant solvent was not associated with an increased risk of esophageal cancer, and the finding of no excess risk of EsophAGEal cancer in Nordic dry cleaners differs from U.S. findings.