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Social and sexual health of thyroid cancer survivors 2 and 5 years after diagnosis: the VICAN survey
Thyroid cancer (TC) incidence is increasing. With its good prognosis and the young population concerned, the number of survivors is rising. However, their quality of life appears worse than expected. This stud...
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Head and neck cancer survivors’ pain in France: the VICAN study
Pain is an increasing concern in the growing number of head and neck cancer survivors. This study aimed to analyze the 5-year prevalence of pain in French survivors of head and neck cancer and to identify asso...
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Open Access“Chronic fatigue, quality of life and long-term side-effects of chemotherapy in patients treated for non-epithelial ovarian cancer: national case-control protocol study of the GINECO-Vivrovaire rare tumors INCa French network for rare malignant ovarian tumors”
Germ cell tumors and sex cord stromal tumors are rare cancers of the ovary. They mainly affect young women and are associated with a high survival rate. The standard treatment mainly involves conservative surg...
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Open AccessCABOCOL-01 trial: a single-arm phase II study assessing safety and efficacy of Cabozantinib for advanced or metastatic cervical carcinoma after platinum treatment failure
Cervical cancer is the tenth diagnosed cancer in the world. Early-stage and locally recurrent disease may be cured with radical surgery or chemo-radiotherapy. However, if disease persists or recurs, options ar...
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Open AccessThe fraction of lung cancer attributable to smoking in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) Study
We examined the association between active and passive smoking and lung cancer risk and the population attributable fraction (PAF) of lung cancer due to active smoking, in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study,...
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Cancer-related fatigue among long-term survivors of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer: a French registry–based controlled study
While several studies have documented fatigue during and after cancer treatment, long-term cancer survivor fatigue is underreported. In this study, we compare fatigue, quality of life (QoL), and anxiety betwee...
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Open AccessAnalysis of medico-social factors for return to work among patients presenting with haematological malignancy (adamantine): results of a ‘pilot study’
The aim of this study was to describe return to work determinants in patients with haematological malignancy.
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Open AccessSmoking related lung cancer mortality by education and sex in Norway
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Open AccessEffectiveness of a therapeutic patient education program in improving cancer pain management: EFFADOL, a stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial
Despite numerous guidelines, nearly one of two patients with cancer pain remains undertreated, thereby affecting their quality of life. Active patient involvement through Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) is...
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Risk of lung cancer and physical activity by smoking status and body mass index, the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study
We aimed to investigate physical activity (PA) and risk of different histological subtypes of lung cancer according to smoking status and body mass index using repeated measurements in a large cohort of women ...
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Correction to: Why harmonization is needed when using FDG PET/CT as a prognosticator: demonstration with EARL-compliant SUV as an independent prognostic factor in lung cancer
An error occurred in the labelling of Fig. 3, where math symbols for SUV thresholds were inverted in panel b when the EARL threshold was applied to the PSF dataset and vice versa. This figure should read as fo...
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Why harmonization is needed when using FDG PET/CT as a prognosticator: demonstration with EARL-compliant SUV as an independent prognostic factor in lung cancer
To determine EARL-compliant prognostic SUV thresholds in a mature cohort of patients with locally advanced NSCLC, and to demonstrate how detrimental it is to use a threshold determined on an older-generation P...
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Open AccessPhysical activity patterns and the risk of colorectal cancer in the Norwegian Women and Cancer study: a population-based prospective study
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced risk of CRC; however, this has been demonstrated more consistently in m...
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Open AccessOptimization of a dedicated protocol using a small-voxel PSF reconstruction for head-and-neck 18FDG PET/CT imaging in differentiated thyroid cancer
18FDG PET/CT is crucial before neck surgery for nodal recurrence localization in iodine-refractory differentiated or poorly differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC/PDTC). A dedicated head-and-neck (HN) acquisition pe....
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Open AccessImpact of breast cancer on prospective memory functioning assessed by virtual reality and influence of sleep quality and hormonal therapy: PROSOM-K study
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer in women with more than 70% of BC patients being treated with hormonal therapy (HT). Among these patients, some report difficulties in remembering what they are s...
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Open AccessExcess body weight, weight gain and obesity-related cancer risk in women in Norway: the Norwegian Women and Cancer study
Excess body weight and weight gain have been reported to independently increase the risk of several cancers. There are few published studies in nationally representative populations of women on specific, ‘obes...
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Open AccessF18-choline PET/CT guided surgery in primary hyperparathyroidism when ultrasound and MIBI SPECT/CT are negative or inconclusive: the APACH1 study
To evaluate the sensitivity of F18-choline (FCH) PET/CT for parathyroid adenoma detection prior to surgery in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and negative or inconclusive cervical ultrasound and Tc99...
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Open AccessSmoking and risk of ovarian cancer by histological subtypes: an analysis among 300 000 Norwegian women
We prospectively investigated the association between different measures of smoking exposure and the risk of serous, mucinous, and endometrioid ovarian cancers (OC) in a cohort of more than 300 000 Norwegian w...
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Open AccessMain nutrient patterns and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study
Much of the current literature on diet–colorectal cancer (CRC) associations focused on studies of single foods/nutrients, whereas less is known about nutrient patterns. We investigated the association between ...
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Coffee consumption and the risk of cancer in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) Study
An association between coffee consumption and cancer has long been investigated. Coffee consumption among Norwegian women is high, thus this is a favorable population in which to study the impact of coffee on ...
