Presentation
Mammography screening is a common public health service for middle-aged women in high income countries, aiming to improve cancer prognosis through earlier treatment. As almost all screen detected lesions are treated, we cannot directly observe the true fate of screening detected tumors. Hence, there is a debate regarding the possibility of non-progressive lesions being detected at mammography screening. While tracking individual tumor progression is not possible, we use statistical modeling at population-level to provide insights into the frequency of non-progressive tumors detected through screening.
Speaker
Harald Weedon-Fekj?r is a biostatistician at OCBE – Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, working with epidemiological research, teaching, and consulting of medical doctors in biostatistics. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a master’s in mathematical statistics in 1999. After working with cancer incidence predictions at the Cancer Registry of Norway and distance teaching of medical statistics at the University of Oslo, Harald defended a PhD on modelling of breast cancer progression and screening in 2008 at the Department of Biostatistics. The fourth paper from his PhD work was in 2008 selected as "Article of the Year" by the Norwegian Epidemiological Association. After his PhD, he spent a semester at Dana-Farber/Harvard University in Boston, USA, before returning to Norway for a postdoc and later joining OCBE in a permanent research position in 2013. His research interests include the complex metrological challenges of evaluating screening programs, statistical programming, and looking into the delicate public health balance of benefits and harms of cancer screening.
Program
11:30 – Doors open and lunch is served
12:00 – "Are all breast cancer carcinomas detected at screening progressive?" by Harald Weedon-Fekj?r (Senior Researcher, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics & Epidemiology – OCBE)
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