Courses

Previously given courses:

25-28/03/2008
Molecular Genetic Epidemiology in the Postgenomic Era.
Date and location: 25-28 March 2008, Tampere, Finland.
Poster
Program

Doctoral Program in Public Health, with emphasis on biobank-based research
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26-28/08/2006
Nordic Research Seminar on Biobanking Seminar date and location: 26-28 August 2006, Malmö, Sweden.
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18-21/04/2006
Genetic epidemiology in the postgenomic era
Course date and location: 18-21 April 2006, Tampere, Finland.
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Background, Biobank-based studies

Longitudinal studies nested in biobanks enable more reliable and efficient study designs, both for design and evaluation of cancer treatment and cancer prevention as well as for exploring and evaluating etiologic hypotheses.

However, several prerequisites apply:

• There must exist very large scale biobanks that should already have several decades of follow-up.
   
• It must be possible to link biobanks with quality-assured population-based cancer registries to enable population-representative studies with minimal case ascertainment bias.
   
• Important problems regarding overview, accessibility, quality control, phenotypic characterisation, efficiency and avoiding risks for violation of personal integrity must be addressed.