• Association between medical androgen deprivation therapy and long-term cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in nonmetastatic prostate cancer 

      Forster, Rachel Bedenis; Engeland, Anders; Kvåle, Rune; Hjellvik, Vidar; Bjørge, Tone (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Studies have suggested that prostate cancer (PCa) patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) are at increased risk of developing or exacerbating cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to explore the association ...
    • Associations of pregnancy-related factors and birth characteristics with risk of endometrial cancer: A Nordic population-based case-control study 

      Trabert, Britton; Troisi, Rebecca; Grotmol, Tom; Ekbom, Anders; Engeland, Anders; Gissler, Mika; Glimelius, Ingrid; Madanat-Harjuoja, Laura M.; Sørensen, Henrik Toft; Tretli, Steinar; Ording, Anne Gulbech; Bjørge, Tone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Many pregnancy‐related factors are associated with reduced endometrial cancer risk. However, it remains unclear whether pregnancy‐related complications (e.g., hypertensive conditions) are associated with risk and whether ...
    • Atypical glandular lesions of the cervix and risk of cervical cancer 

      Graue, Renate; Lönnberg, Stefan; Skare, Gry Baadstrand; Sæther, Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit; Bjørge, Tone (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Introduction Cytology screening has been effective in reducing risks for cervical squamous cell carcinoma but less so for adenocarcinoma. We explored the association of atypical glandular cells or absence of glandular ...
    • Blood glucose and risk of incident and fatal cancer in the metabolic syndrome and cancer project (me-can): analysis of six prospective cohorts 

      Stocks, Tanja; Rapp, Kilian; Bjørge, Tone; Manjer, Jonas; Ulmer, Hanno; Selmer, Randi Marie; Lukanova, Annekatrin; Johansen, Dorthe; Concin, Hans; Tretli, Steinar; Hallmans, Göran; Jonsson, Håkan; Stattin, Pär (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-12-22)
      Background: Prospective studies have indicated that elevated blood glucose levels may be linked with increased cancer risk, but the strength of the association is unclear. We examined the association between blood glucose ...
    • Cancer risk in individuals with major birth defects: large Nordic population based case-control study among children, adolescents, and adults 

      Daltveit, Dagrun Slettebø; Klungsøyr, Kari; Engeland, Anders; Ekbom, Anders; Gissler, Mika; Glimelius, Ingrid; Grotmol, Tom; Madanat-Harjuoja, Laura M.; Ording, Anne Gulbech; Sæther, Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit; Sørensen, Henrik Toft; Troisi, Rebecca; Bjørge, Tone (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Objective To examine associations between birth defects and cancer from birth into adulthood. Design Population based nested case-control study. Setting Nationwide health registries in Denmark, Finland, Norway, ...
    • Cardiovascular outcomes after curative prostate cancer treatment: A population-based cohort study 

      Kjellstadli, Camilla; Forster, Rachel Bedenis; Myklebust, Tor Åge; Bjørge, Tone; Bønaa, Kaare Harald; Helle, Svein Inge; Kvåle, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-31)
      Objective: To investigate differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality after radical prostatectomy or definitive radiotherapy with or without androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Materials and ...
    • Cervical cancer in women under 30 years of age in Norway: a population-based cohort study 

      Gravdal, Brit Helene; Lönnberg, Stefan; Skare, Gry Baadstrand; Sulo, Gerhard; Bjørge, Tone (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background We compared women with incident cervical cancer under the age of 30 with older women with regard to stage, morphology, screening history and cervical cancer mortality in a population-based cohort study. Methods We ...
    • CervicalScreen Norway – A screening programme in transition 

      Bjørge, Tone; Engesæter, Birgit Øvstebø; Skare, Gry Baadstrand; Trope, Ameli (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      An organised screening programme for cervical cancer (CervicalScreen Norway) was implemented in Norway in 1995. The overall aim of the programme is to reduce the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer, and the screening ...
    • Changes in life expectancy and disease burden in Norway, 1990–2019: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Clarsen, Benjamin Matthew; Nylenna, Magne; Klitkou, Søren Toksvig; Vollset, Stein Emil; Baravelli, Carl Michael; Bølling, Anette Kocbach; Aasvang, Gunn Marit; Sulo, Gerhard; Naghavi, Mohsen; Pasovic, Maja; Asaduzzaman, Muhammad; Bjørge, Tone; Eggen, Anne Elise; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Ellingsen, Christian Lycke; Haaland, Øystein Ariansen; Hailu, Alemayehu; Hassan, Shoaib; Hay, Simon I.; Juliusson, Pétur Benedikt; Kisa, Adnan; Kisa, Sezer; Månsson, Johan; Yitayew, Teferi Mekonnen; Murray, Christopher J L; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Ottersen, Trygve; Sagoe, Dominic; Sripada, Kam; Winkler, Andrea Sylvia; Knudsen, Ann Kristin Skrindo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Geographical differences in health outcomes are reported in many countries. Norway has led an active policy aiming for regional balance since the 1970s. Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) ...
    • Economic independence in survivors of cancer diagnosed at a young age: A Norwegian national cohort study 

      Gunnes, Maria Winther; Lie, Rolv T.; Bjørge, Tone; Syse, Astri; Ruud, Ellen; Wesenberg, Finn; Moster, Dag (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-12)
      BACKGROUND: The impact of cancer on socioeconomic outcomes is attracting attention as the number of survivors of cancer in young age continues to rise. This study examines economic independence in a national cohort of ...
    • Global, regional and national burden of bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019 

      Safiri, Saeid; Kolahi, Ali-Asghar; Naghavi, Mohsen; Nejadghaderi, Seyed Aria; Mansournia, Mohammad Ali; Sullman, Mark; Almasi-Hashiani, Amir; Sepidarkish, Mahdi; Ashrafi-Asgarabad, Ahad; Abdoli, Amir; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Advani, Shailesh M.; Alahdab, Fares; Alipour, Vahid; Amini, Erfan; Anbesu, Etsay Woldu; Anderson, Jason A.; Arabloo, Jalal; Awedew, Atalel Fentahun; Baig, Atif Amin; Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth; Bijani, Ali; Biondi, Antonio; Bjørge, Tone; Braithwaite, Dejana; Caetano dos Santos, Florentino Luciano; Carreras, Giulia; Carvalho, Felix; Chu, Dinh-Toi; Compton, Kelly; Costa, Vera Marisa; Dai, Xiaochen; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Molla, Meseret Derbew; Desta, Abebaw Alemayehu; Dianatinasab, Mostafa; Ebrahimi, Hedyeh; Eftekharzadeh, Sahar; El Sayed, Iman; Eshrati, Babak; Farzadfar, Farshad; Feleke, Berhanu Elfu; Fernandes, Eduarda; Filip, Irina; Fomenkov, Artem Alekseevich; Gallus, Silvano; Ghafourifard, Mansour; Ghashghaee, Ahmad; Golechha, Mahaveer; Gonfa, Kebebe Bekele; Gorini, Giuseppe; Hafezi-Nejad, Nima; Hamidi, Samer; Harvey, James D.; Hassanipour, Soheil; Hay, Simon I.; Henrikson, Hannah Jacqueline; Househ, Mowafa; Ibitoye, Segun Emmanuel; Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen; Ilic, Irena M.; Ilic, Milena D.; Joukar, Farahnaz; Kumar, G. Anil; La Vecchia, Carlo; Ladi-Seyedian, Seyedeh-Sanam; Lami, Faris Hasan; Landires, Iván; Li, Bingyu; Lugo, Alessandra; Majeed, Azeem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Mestrovic, Tomislav; Miazgowski, Bartosz; Michalek, Irmina Maria; Moghadaszadeh, Masoud; Mohamad, Osama; Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Abdollah; Reza, Mohammadpourhodki; Mohammed, Shafiu; Mokdad, Ali H.; Molokhia, Mariam; Monasta, Lorenzo; Moradzadeh, Rahmatollah; Nabavizadeh, Behnam; Naimzada, Mukhammad David; Nguyen, Cuong Tat; Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi; Nikbakhsh, Rajan; Nowroozi, Mohammad Reza; Nuñez-Samudio, Virginia; Otstavnov, Stanislav S.; Pham, Hai Quang; Pirestani, Majid; Pottoo, Faheem Hyder; Rabiee, Navid; Radfar, Amir; Rafiei, Alireza; Rathi, Priya; Rawaf, David Laith; Rawaf, Salman; Rezaei, Nima; Roberts, Nicholas L.S.; Roshandel, Gholamreza; Samy, Abdallah M.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Sha, Feng; Shaikh, Masood Ali; Sheikhbahaei, Sara; Malleshappa, Sudeep K. Siddappa; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Spurlock, Emma Elizabeth; Tadesse, Eyayou Girma; Tefera, Yonas Getaye; Tekalegn, Yohannes; Titova, Mariya Vladimirovna; Topor-Madry, Roman; Traini, Eugenio; Tran, Bach Xuan; Tran, Khanh Bao; Travillian, Ravensara S.; Vacante, Marco; Xu, Rixing; Yeshitila, Yordanos Gizachew; Zadnik, Vesna; Zamanian, Maryam; Zhang, Zhi-Jiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Introduction The current study determined the level and trends associated with the incidence, death and disability rates for bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, from 1990 to ...
    • The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Kamangar, Farin; Nasrollahzadeh, Dariush; Safiri, Saeid; Sepanlou, Sadaf G; Fitzmaurice, Christina; Ikuta, Kevin S.; Bisignano, Catherine; Islami, Farhad; Roshandel, Gholamreza; Lim, Stephen S; Abolhassani, Hassan; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji; Advani, Shailesh M.; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine; Akinyemiju, Tomi; Akunna, Chisom Joyqueenet; Alahdab, Fares; Alipour, Vahid; Bjørge, Tone; Almasi-Hashiani, Amir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Oesophageal cancer is a common and often fatal cancer that has two main histological subtypes: oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Updated statistics on the incidence and mortality ...
    • Global, regional, and national burden of respiratory tract cancers and associated risk factors from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Ebrahimi, Hedyeh; Aryan, Zahra; Moghaddam, Sahar Saeedi; Bisignano, Catherine; Rezaei, Shahabeddin; Pishgar, Farhad; Force, Lisa M.; Abolhassani, Hassan; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Advani, Shailesh M.; Ahmad, Sohail; Alahdab, Fares; Alipour, Vahid; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed; Amini, Saeed; Ancuceanu, Robert; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Andrei, Tudorel; Arabloo, Jalal; Arab-Zozani, Morteza; Asaad, Malke; Ausloos, Marcel; Awedew, Atalel Fentahun; Baig, Atif Amin; Bijani, Ali; Biondi, Antonio; Bjørge, Tone; Braithwaite, Dejana; Brauer, Michael; Brenner, Hermann; Maria Teresa, Bustamante-Teixeira; Butt, Zahid A.; Carreras, Giulia; Carlos A, Castañeda-Orjuela; Chimed-Ochir, Odgerel; Chu, Dinh-Toi; Chung, Michael T; Cohen, Aaron J.; Compton, Kelly; Dagnew, Baye; Dai, Xiaochen; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dean, Frances E.; Molla, Meseret Derbew; Alemayehu Desta, Abebaw; Driscoll, Tim Robert; Faraon, Emerito Jose A; Naghavi, Mohsen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Prevention, control, and treatment of respiratory tract cancers are important steps towards achieving target 3.4 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—a one-third reduction in premature mortality due ...
    • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 

      Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe; Abate, Degu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abay, Solomon M.; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbasi, Nooshin; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdela, Jemal; Abdelalim, Ahmed; Abdollahpour, Ibrahim; Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi; Stovner, Lars Jacob; Bjørge, Tone; Knudsen, Ann Kristin; Øverland, Simon Nygaard; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Eggen, Anne Elise; Htet, Aung Soe; Kisa, Adnan; Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse; Sulo, Gerhard; Steiner, Timothy J.; Murray, Christopher J L (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-08)
      Background How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, ...
    • High BMI is significantly associated with positive progesterone receptor status and clinico-pathological markers for non-aggressive disease in endometrial cancer 

      Mauland, Karen Klepsland; Trovik, Jone; Wik, Elisabeth; Ræder, Maria B.; Njølstad, Tormund Salvesen; Stefansson, Ingunn Marie; Øyan, Anne Margrete; Kalland, Karl-Henning; Bjørge, Tone; Akslen, Lars A.; Salvesen, Helga Birgitte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)
      Background: Endometrial cancer incidence is increasing in industrialised countries. High body mass index (BMI, kg m−2) is associated with higher risk for disease. We wanted to investigate if BMI is related to clinico-pathological ...
    • HPV DNA testing improves CIN2+ risk stratification and detection of CIN2+ in delayed triage of ASCUS and LSIL. A population-based follow-up study from Western Norway 

      Budal, Elisabeth Berge; Haugland, Hans Kristian; Skar, Robert; Mæhle, Bjørn Ove; Bjørge, Tone; Vintermyr, Olav Karsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02)
      In Norway, Pap smears with atypical squamous cells of uncertain significance (ASCUS) and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) are triaged after 6 months. The aim of the study was to evaluate effects of ...
    • HPV self-sampling among long-term non-attenders to cervical cancer screening in Norway: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial 

      Aasbø, Gunvor; Trope, Ameli; Nygård, Mari; Christiansen, Irene Kraus; Baasland, Ingrid; Iversen, Grete Alræk; Munk, Ane Cecilie Dæhli; Christiansen, Marit Halonen; Presthus, Gro Kummeneje; Undem, Karina; Bjørge, Tone; Castle, Philip E.; Hansen, Bo Lars Thorvald Terning (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Cervical cancer screening participation is suboptimal in most settings. We assessed whether human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling may increase screening participation among long-term non-attenders in Norway. ...
    • Implementing medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol in Norway 1998-2013 

      Løkeland, Mette; Bjørge, Tone; Iversen, Ole-Erik; Akerkar, Rupali; Bjørge, Line (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Background: Medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol was introduced in Norway in 1998, and since then there has been an almost complete change from predominantly surgical to medical abortions. We aimed to describe ...
    • Interaction of leisure-time physical activity with body mass index on the risk of obesity-related cancers: A pooled study 

      Sun, Ming; Bjørge, Tone; Teleka, Stanley; Engeland, Anders; Wennberg, Patrik; Häggström, Christel; Stocks, Tanja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Physical activity (PA) has been associated with a lower risk of some obesity-related cancers, but the combined association and interaction of PA and body weight on obesity-related cancer risk is less clear. We examined the ...
    • The Inverse Association of Body Mass Index with Lung Cancer: Exploring Residual Confounding, Metabolic Aberrations and Within-Person Variability in Smoking 

      Wood, Angela M.; Jonsson, Håkan; Nagel, Gabriele; Häggström, Christel; Manjer, Jonas; Ulmer, Hanno; Engeland, Anders; Zitt, Emanuel; Jochems, Sylvia; Ghaderi, Sara; Stattin, Pär; Bjørge, Tone; Stocks, Tanja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background: The inverse observational association between body mass index (BMI) and lung cancer risk remains unclear. We assessed whether the association is explained by metabolic aberrations, residual confounding, and ...