Social Inequality in Survivorship

In SIS we investigate the influence of social circumstances on life after cancer - for the patients and for their relatives. We also focus on identifying patients who are at high risk for developing late effects after cancer treatment, both physical, psychological and social problems, in order to develop and test targeted interventions to improve care and support for high-risk patients.

Our research in SIS covers four themes, although often each research project will overlap between these themes. The four themes are:

• Social Inequality
• Late effects: Who, When and Why
• Consequences of late effects
• High risk patients

Our studies are conducted based on diverse data sources - on national dataset linking administrative registries with health registries (i.e. the Cancer Registry), on large population cohort studies and on clinical experimental data, including questionnaires and medical charts from randomized controlled trials testing interventions to improve care and reduce late effects of cancer treatment.