End reports.

In the following links, the end reports of the various work packages can be found:

1. Work package 1: is coordination work package and has no separate final report
2. Work package 2: prevalence of risk factors and relative risks. Link to final report WP2.
3. Work package 3: Impact of socio-economic determinants of cancer in Europe. Link to final report WP3.
4. Work package 4: Effectiveness of interventions and policies. Link to final report WP4.
   
5. Work package 5: Current implementation of best-practice interventions and policies. Link to final report WP5.
   
6. Work package 6: Future burden of cancer up to 2020: autonomous developments. Link to final report WP6.
7. Work package 7: Future burden of cancer: effects of policies and interventions: synthesis and interaction with policymakers. This work package is still ongoing, final report in preparation.

Publications

Publications Work package 3: socio-economic determinants of cancer in Europe

 

Papers on cancer mortality and incidence.

1.       Menvielle G, Kunst AE, Stirbu I, Strand BH, Borrell C, Regidor E, et al. Educational differences in cancer mortality among women and men: a gender pattern that differs across Europe. Br J Cancer 2008; 98(5): 1012-9. Abstract

2.       Menvielle G, Kunst AE, Stirbu I, Borrell C, Bopp M, Regidor E, et al. Socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol related cancer mortality among men: to what extent do they differ between Western European populations? Int J Cancer 2007;121(3):649-55. Abstract

3.       Ezendam NP, Stirbu I, Leinsalu M, Lundberg O, Kalediene R, Wojtyniak B, et al. Educational inequalities in cancer mortality differ greatly between countries around the Baltic Sea. Eur J Cancer 2008;44(3):454-64. Abstract

4.       Strand BH, Kunst A, Huisman M, Menvielle G, Glickman M, Bopp M, et al. The reversed social gradient: higher breast cancer mortality in the higher educated compared to lower educated. A comparison of 11 European populations during the 1990s. Eur J Cancer 2007;43(7):1200-7. Abstract

5.       Menvielle G, Boshuizen H, et al. The role of smoking and diet in explaining educational inequalities in lung cancer incidence. J Natl. cancer Inst 2009. 101(5): p.321-30. Abstract

6.       Menvielle G, Boshuizen H, et al. Socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer incidence: the role of parity and other risk factors. Submitted for publication.

7.       Spadea T, Zengarini N, Kunst AE, Costa G. Socioeconomic predictors of cancer incidence in Torino. Manuscript in preparation.

8.       Kunst AE, Agt H van, Pukkala E. Trends in inequalities in incidence of major cancer in Finland: evidence of cohort effects. Manuscript in preparation.

 

Papers on behavioural risk factors.

 

9.       Schaap MM, van Agt HM, Kunst AE. Identification of socioeconomic groups at increased risk for smoking in European countries: Looking beyond educational level. Nicotine Tob Res 2008;10(2):359-69. Abstract

10.   Schaap MM, Kunst AE, et al. Effect of nation-wide tobacco control policies on smoking cessation in high and low educated groups in 18 European countries. Tobacco Control 2008;17(4):248-55. Abstract

11.   Roskam, A.J. and A.E. Kunst, The predictive value of different socio-economic indicators for overweight in nine European countries. Public Health Nutr, 2008. 11(12): p. 1256-66. Abstract

12.   Roskam AJ, Kunst AE, et al. Overview of inequalities in overweight and obesity across Europe. Submitted for publication.

13.   Kunst AE, Schaap MM, et al. Educational inequalities in the amount of alcohol consumption in different European regions. Manuscript in preparation.

14.   Prättälä R, Hakala S, Roskam AJ, Roos E, Helmert U, Klumbiene J, Oyen H van, Regidor E, Kunst AE. Association between educational level and vegetable use in nine European countries. Public Health Nutr 2009: p 1-9. Abstract

15.   Demarest S, Oyen H van, Roskam AJ, Cox B, Regidor E,  Mackenbach JP, Kunst AE. Socioeconomic inequalities in leisure time physical activity in 15 European countries. Submitted for publication.

  

Publications Work package 4: Effectiveness of interventions and policies

1.  Lemmens, V.E., et al., A systematic review of the evidence regarding efficacy of obesity prevention interventions among adults. Obes Rev, 2008. 9(5): p. 446-55. Abstract

2.   Lemmens, V., et al., Effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions among adults: a systematic review of reviews. Eur J Cancer Prev, 2008. 17(6): p. 535-44. Abstract

 

Publications Work package 7:  Future burden of cancer up to 2020: autonomous developments.

1. Karim-Kos, de Vries, et al. Recent trends of cancer in Europe: a combined approach of incidence, survival and mortality for 17 cancer sites since the 1990s. Eur J Cancer, 2008. 44(10): p. 1345-89. Abstract

2. Martin-Moreno, Soerjomataram, and Magnusson. Cancer causes and prevention: a condensed appraisal in Europe in 2008. Eur J Cancer, 2008. 44(10): p. 1390-403. Abstract

3. Soerjomataram, and Coebergh. Should women be advised to have first childbirth at age <20 years to reduce breast cancer risk? J Cancer Res Clin Oncol, 2007. 133(11): p. 903. Abstract

4. Soerjomataram, Coebergh, et al. Does the decrease in hormone replacement therapy also affect breast cancer risk in the Netherlands? J Clin Oncol, 2007. 25(31): p. 5038-9; author reply 5039-40. Abstract

5. Soerjomataram, de Vries, et al. Excess of cancers in Europe: a study of eleven major cancers amenable to lifestyle change. Int J Cancer, 2007. 120(6): p. 1336-43. Abstract.

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6. Soerjomataram, Pukkala, et al. On the avoidability of breast cancer in industrialized societies: older mean age at first birth as an indicator of excess breast cancer risk. Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2008. 111(2): p. 297-302. Abstract

7. Renehan, A. G., I. Soerjomataram, et al. Incident Cancer Burden Attributable to Excess Body Mass Index in 30 European countries. Int J Cancer, 2009. Abstract