Molecular epidemiology approach : nested case-control studies in glioma and lymphoid malignancies

• Main Author: Späth, Florentin
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet, Onkologi 2019
• Subjects: Glioma; B cell lymphoma; multiple myeloma; risk; repeated samples; prospective longitudinal study; nested case-control study; circulating sEGFR and sERBB2; circulating immune markers and growth factors; marker disease association; disease progression; NSHDS; Janus; linear mixed modeling; Cancer and Oncology; Cancer och onkologi; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156421

BACKGROUND: Nested case-control studies aim to link molecular markers with a certain outcome. Repeated prediagnostic samples may improve the evaluation of marker-disease associations. However, data regarding the benefit of repeated samples in such studies are sparse. We aimed to assess the relations...