Leaving the parental home, cohabitation, and marriage after a hematologic malignancy in childhood-A register-based cohort study from the SALiCCS research program.

Introduction: Transitioning to adulthood often involves achieving independence from the parental home. We assessed whether the likelihood of leaving the parental home, cohabitation, and marriage was similar between patients who experienced a hematologic malignancy at a young age and their peers.

Methods: We identified 11,575 patients diagnosed with a hematologic malignancy under the age of 20 years between 1971 and 2011 in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, 57,727 country-, age-, and sex-matched population comparisons and 11,803 sibling comparisons and obtained annual information on family and marital status by linking to the statistical institute databases.

Fluid therapy is associated with lower care quality and higher symptom burden during last days of life of patients with cancer - a population-based register study.

Background: Parenteral fluid (PF) therapy of patients in end-of-life (EOL) is controversial. The purpose of this study was to assess associations between PF, quality of the EOL care process and symptom burden in dying cancer patients, using a population-based approach.

Methods: This was a nationwide retrospective register study of all adult cancer deaths with documented information on PF in the last 24 h of life as reported to the Swedish Register of Palliative Care during a three-year period (n = 41,709).

Occurrence of mucosa-affecting diseases of the upper airways in middle ear cholesteatoma patients: a nationwide case-control study.

Purpose: Exploring a possible link between upper airway inflammation and the development of cholesteatoma by studying the association between mucosa-affecting diseases of the upper airways and cholesteatoma surgery.

Methods: This is a nationwide case-control study of 10,618 patients who underwent surgery for cholesteatoma in Sweden between 1987 and 2018. The cases were identified in the National Patient Register and 21,235 controls matched by age, sex and place of residency were included from national population registers.

Early mortality in children with cancer in Denmark and Sweden: The role of social background in a setting with universal healthcare.

Socioeconomic differences in overall survival from childhood cancer have been shown previously, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We aimed to investigate if social inequalities were seen already for early mortality in settings with universal healthcare. From national registers, all children diagnosed with cancer at ages 0-19 years, during 1991-2014, in Sweden and Denmark, were identified, and information on parental social characteristics was collected.