The Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) study

On December 13, 2024, at 13:00, PhD candidate Ming Sun successfully defended her thesis titled Pinpointing the Association between Obesity and Cancer Risk at the Agardh Lecture Hall, CRC, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. The opponent was Gillian Reeves from Oxford University, and the committee members included Fang Fang from the Karolinska Institute, Sofia Zackrison, and Christel Nielsen from Lund University, with Sofia serving as the head of the defense. The main supervisor was Tanja Stocks, with Josef Fritz and Christel Häggström as co-supervisors.

Thank you to everyone involved and to the audience at the public defense. We wish Ming Sun the best in her future research career!

The study on weight trajectories and prostate cancer, with ODDS postdoc Marisa da Silva as the first author, was presented in the Swedish Epidemiology Association’s members’ journal SVEPET. This edition, themed around the NordicEpi 2024 conference in Copenhagen, highlighted several studies and included personal reflections from the event SVEPET NordicEpi 2024.

Marisa da Silva, happy after waiting 45 minutes for a delicious bowl of ramen in Copenhagen.

The Swedish Cancer Society has published a comprehensive article on their website (in Swedish) highlighting the findings from the ODDS study, recently featured in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. The study suggests that obesity may be associated with a greater number of cancer types than previously recognised, including several rare forms. Ny studie: fetma potentiellt kopplat till fler cancerformer än tidigare känt | Cancerfonden

ODDS’s principal investigator, Tanja Stocks, presents (in Swedish) our current research and the research field of register-based epidemiology in the Swedish Cancer Society’s podcast series, Glöd.