Publications by authors named "A Hemminki"

Article Synopsis
  • Thyroid cancer (TC) has various histological types that impact patient survival differently, with improvements in relative survival rates noted in Sweden between 1999 and 2018.
  • Female patients generally have better survival rates compared to males and certain types, like follicular and oncocytic, show particularly high 5-year relative survival rates, though anaplastic cancer remains significantly more lethal.
  • Urgent diagnosis and treatment are critical for anaplastic TC due to its poor survival outcomes, highlighting the need for dedicated research and improved treatment pathways similar to those implemented in Denmark.
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Background: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a common hematological malignancy with highly variable clinical presentation. Many patients never require any treatment but for the others, chemotherapy, immunochemotherapy, and newer targeted therapies have changed the treatment landscape. Diagnostic age influences the applied treatment, and we thus wanted to analyze age-specific survival trends through 50 years up to 2020s.

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Esophageal cancer (EC) and gastric cancer (GC) are fatal cancers with a relatively late age of onset. Age is a negative risk factor for survival in many cancers and our aim was to analyze age-specific survival in EC and GC using the recently updated NORDCAN database. NORDCAN data originate from the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish nationwide cancer registries covering years 1972 through 2021 inviting for comparison of 50-year survival trends between the countries.

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