The Finnish Cancer Registry researches cancer risk factors and their significance in cancer prevention.
The research focuses on lifestyle, occupational exposures and the connections between comorbidities and cancer risk. The research also examines patient survival, incidence of new cancers and the late effects of cancer in childhood cancer survivors.
The NOCCA is a long-running joint Nordic research project studying cancer risks and incidence in different occupational groups. To date, 64 scientific articles have been published under this project. The project updates previous occupation-specific cancer estimates and makes more precise estimations of the cancer effects of modern work environments. The research data is being updated with more comprehensive information on other factors affecting cancer risks, such as educational background and lifestyle factors. The project NOCCA New aims to estimate the causal proportions of occupational exposures in different cancers and analyse occupation-specific cancer survival.
(Prospective METa Cohort Study of CAncer Burden in Finland – METCA)
In this joint research project between the Finnish Cancer Registry and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), large Finnish population health studies are combined with data from the national cancer registry. This provides unique, up-to-date information on cancer risk factors and their impact on the cancer burden of Finns. The project produces estimates and predictions of population attributable fractions of cancer risk factors, which are used in planning cancer prevention work.
The ASA Register is a registry of persons exposed to carcinogenic substances and methods in their work. The study aims to compare the cancer risk and mortality of persons registered in the ASA Register with the cancer incidence or mortality of the corresponding population by gender, age and period. Cancer risk is also examined by substance, occupation, and industry.
The aim is to investigate whether the use of health services by cancer patients before receiving a cancer diagnosis differs from that of a population control group, the time from suspected cancer referral to access to specialised medical care, as well as possible factors affecting it. Additionally, the study examines whether there is a connection between the contact frequency of cancer patients and the time from suspected cancer referral to access to specialised medical care with the survival of cancer patients.