Cancer among patients with diabetes, obesity and abnormal blood lipids: a population-based register study in Sweden.

Objective: To study how the incidence of cancer is related to diabetes, obesity or abnormal blood lipids.

Methods: Diagnosis of diabetes, obesity or abnormal blood lipids was studied 0-10 years prior to the diagnosis of cancer in 19,756 cases of cancer and in 147,324 controls matched regarding age, sex and domicile.

Results: Diabetes was significantly more common prior to diagnosis in patients with liver, pancreatic, colon and urinary tract/bladder cancer and in patients with breast cancer diagnosed with diabetes 0-4 years prior to the cancer diagnosis.

Sickness absence among cancer patients in the pre-diagnostic and the post-diagnostic phases of five common forms of cancer.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to observe sickness absence before and after the cancer diagnosis among cancer patients with five common forms of cancer.

Methods: Using cohort data, we observed sick leave in the pre- and post-diagnostic phase among patients with colon, rectal, breast, prostate, or lung cancer (n = 2,738). We also identified reference subjects without cancer (total n = 12,246) who were individually matched for age and gender for each specific cancer cohort in order to compare sickness absence between patients with a specific form of cancer and the background population without cancer.

Low cancer rates among patients with dementia in a population-based register study in Sweden.

Background: Some studies have suggested a lower incidence of cancer in patients with dementia. We studied this further for 18 cancer types in population-based registers.

Methods: In 19,756 cases and in 147,324 age- and sex-matched controls a diagnosis of dementia was studied 9-45 months prior to the diagnosis of cancer.

Sick leave of spouses to cancer patients before and after diagnosis.

Background: The impact of cancer on spouses of cancer patients may be considerable in many aspects. Our objective was to evaluate sick leave in spouses of cancer patients before and after the diagnosis.

Material And Methods: Using Swedish population-based registries, we studied sick leave of spouses to patients with newly diagnosed colon, rectal, lung, prostate, or breast cancer.

Influence on the health of the partner affected by tumor disease in the wife or husband based on a population-based register study of cancer in Sweden.

Purpose: To examine health care use and health care costs among partners of persons with cancer.

Patients And Methods: Partners of patients with colon, rectal, lung, breast, and prostate cancer (N = 11,076) were identified via linked data from the Tumor Registry of Southern Sweden and Census Registry of Sweden. Health care use, total costs of health care, and diagnosis of the partner were studied before and after diagnosis of the cancer patient.