Dissemination
Presentations at national and international Conferences.
Current project:
Talks:
Norsk forening for epidemiologi (NOFE) Conference November 2011
- Eivind Bjerkaas: Smoking prevalence in the "Smoking, Women and Cancer Study" compared to smoking prevalence in the official Norwegian Statistics.
- Ranjan Parajuli: Women and Cancer Study compared with the Norwegian general female population.
Posters:
Annual meeting American Association for Cancer Research 2013, Washington, DC, USA
- Ranjan Parajuli, Eivind Bjerkaas, Aage Tverdal, Randi Selmer, Loic Le Marchand, Elisabete Weiderpass, and Inger Torhild Gram The increased risk of colon cancer due to cigarette smoking may be greater in women than men. Cancer Res April 15, 2013; 73(8 Supplement): 4813.
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/73/8_MeetingAbstracts/4813
- Eivind Bjerkaas, Ranjan Parajuli, Anders Engeland, Gertraud Mascarinec, Randi Selmer, Elisabete Weiderpass, and Inger Torhild Gram. Smoking duration before first childbirth: An emerging risk factor for breast cancer? Results from the Norwegian National Health Service Cohort (NHHS). Cancer Res April 15, 2013; 73(8 Supplement): 134.
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/73/8_MeetingAbstracts/134
Related projects
Press conference:
Ovarian cancer; American Association for Cancer Research , Washingthon DC, April 4th, 2006.
www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/852571020057CCF6852571470060C795
International talks given by the PI relevant to the project:
Smoking and Breast cancer
Cigarette smoking and the incidence of breast cancer . American Association for Cancer Research 95th Annual Meeting, Orlando Florida, USA . March 29th, 2004
Cigarette smoking and the incidence of breast cancer . Seminar-series. Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii; USA. April 25th, 2004
Breast cancer risk among non-drinking women, Society for Epidemiologic Research 37th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA June 16th, 2004
Cigarette smoking and breast cancer risk among women who start smoking at young ages. Seminar-series. New York University, Medical School. New York, NY, USA, March 16th , 2005
Breast cancer risk among women who start smoking as teenagers. Seminar-series. Gifu University, Medical School. Gifu, Japan. April 8th 2005
Breast cancer risk among women who start smoking before their first birth. Seminar-series. Tsukuba University, Tsukuba. Japan. April 11th 2005
Smoking and Ovarian cancer
Smoking and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer among parous women. 5th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco induced Diseases, Hong Kong, China. November 26th, 2006
Cigarette smoking and risk of borderline and invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Seminar-series. Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii; USA. July 3rd, 008
New links between smoking and risk of borderline and invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Institute de Cancerologie, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, Paris, France. August 5th, 2008
Smoking and colorectal cancer
New Links found between Smoking and Colorectal Cancer (CRC) among Norwegian Women The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Mumbai, India, March 9th, 2009
Smoking and cervical cancer
Cigarette Smoking and the incidence of severe dysplasia and carcinoma in situ of the cervix uteri. Presented at the Annual Meeting Program, The American Public Health Association, New York, New York, USA, Oct 2nd , 1990