Timo Hakulinen

TL;DR: The results do not support the hypothesis that there is an excess risk of cancer in the children of fathers in hydrocarbon-related occupations, and no significant associations were found between the commonest types of childhood cancer and hydrocarbon.

TL;DR: The present finding that age at introduction of oats is inversely and independently associated with development of persistent asthma is novel and confirmed the earlier observation that the age at introducing of fish is in negatively related to the risk of allergic rhinitis.

TL;DR: It appears that Danish cancer patients are diagnosed at a later stage of disease than patients in the other Nordic countries, and have the lowest proportion of localized tumours.

TL;DR: Even in a potentially equitable society with high health care standards, marked inequalities persist in cancer survival, particularly for the cancer patients’ mortality from other causes of death than cancer.

TL;DR: The degree of variation in relative survival resulting from social class decreased, although did not disappear, after controlling for social class differences in general mortality, and it is recommended that relative survival rates are used with expected survival adjusted forsocial class when studying social class variation in cancer patient survival.