Cancer Epidemiology, 4 cr

The cancer epidemiology course consists of several themes such as: cancer registration and coding, prevention, differences in incidence and mortality, prediction and survival, radiation and cancer, work and cancer, screening of cancer.

The aim of the course is to be able to have basic knowledge of cancer as a disease, how it is registered and coded, what kind of preventive and early diagnostics are in use, and how to use register data in research and in policy making.