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Mette Sørensen
Oncology
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Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and bladder cancer incidence in a pooled European cohort: the ELAPSE project
The evidence linking ambient air pollution to bladder cancer is limited and mixed.
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Transportation noise and risk for colorectal cancer: a nationwide study covering Denmark
Few studies have suggested that traffic noise is a risk factor for cancer, but evidence is inconclusive. We aimed to investigate whether road traffic and railway noise are associated with risk of colorectal ca...
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Long-term residential exposure to air pollution and Hodgkin lymphoma risk among adults in Denmark: a population-based case–control study
The etiology of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is obscure. Research on air pollution and risk of HL provides inconsistent results. We aimed to investigate the association between long-term residential exposure to air p...
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Open AccessRelationship of leukaemias with long-term ambient air pollution exposures in the adult Danish population
Few population-based epidemiological studies of adults have examined the relationship between air pollution and leukaemias.
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Open AccessSocioeconomic differences in the risk of childhood central nervous system tumors in Denmark: a nationwide register-based case–control study
Differences in the risk of childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors by socioeconomic status (SES) may enhance etiologic insights. We conducted a nationwide register-based case–control study to evaluate so...
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Residential traffic noise and mammographic breast density in the Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort
Traffic is the most important source of community noise, and it has been proposed to be associated with a range of disease outcomes, including breast cancer. As mammographic breast density (MD) is one of the s...
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Modeled traffic noise at the residence and colorectal cancer incidence: a cohort study
Traffic noise has become an increasing public health concern, associated with pervasive negative health effects, most likely through pathways of sleep disruption and stress. Both sleep disruption and stress ha...
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Air pollution from traffic and risk for brain tumors: a nationwide study in Denmark
Air pollution is an established lung carcinogen, and there is increasing evidence that air pollution also negatively affects the brain. We have previously reported an association between air pollution and ris...
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Open AccessDietary cadmium intake and risk of prostate cancer: a Danish prospective cohort study
Cadmium is classified as a human lung carcinogen based on evidence from high-exposure occupational settings. Though cadmium has no physiological role, increasing evidence suggests cadmium may mimic steroid hor...
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Open AccessA haplotype of polymorphisms in ASE-1, RAI and ERCC1and the effects of tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption on risk of colorectal cancer: a danish prospective case-cohort study
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most frequent type of genetic variation in the human genome, and are of interest for the study of susceptibility to and protection from diseases. The haplotype at...
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The effect of occasional smoking on smoking-related cancers
Most studies on tobacco smoking have focused on daily-smokers. Occasional smokers, who have never smoked daily, have often been included in the reference group of never-smokers. We have investigated the associ...
