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7 Mar 2024
Optimization of risk factors before surgery is overlooked
Establish a center at every major hospital that can organize prehabilitation before operations, writes Hanne Tönnesen and colleagues in a debate article in Läkartidningen. Hanne Tö...
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1 Feb 2024
Webinar: lifestyle habits before surgery
Hanne Tönnesen, Professor and Director of WHOCC at Lund University has shared her expertise on lifestyle habits before surgery, at a webinar organized by the Swedish Society of Med...
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6 Nov 2023
Cancer risk among users of smokeless tobacco
A systematic review of cancer risk among users of smokeless tobacco (Swedish snus) exclusively, compared with no use of tobacco.
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2 Oct 2023
Intensive smoking cessation program effective to become successful quitter
An intensive smoking cessation program seems effective in helping both people without cancer and cancer survivors become successful quitters. This is the results of a new study fro...
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4 Jul 2023
Intensive smoking cessation interventions (ISCIs) highly effective
New article: Intensive versus short face-to-face smoking cessation interventions: a meta-analysis.
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3 Jul 2023
Evaluation of Local Interventions for the Prevention of NCDs
On January 26, more than 40 international professionals working in the field of NCDs participated in our live-session on "Evaluation of Local Interventions for the Prevention of NC...
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2 Jul 2023
How to implement brief interventions in primary health care
WHO Europe recently launched a manual of Integrated Brief Interventions for noncommunicable disease risk factors in primary care. Our centre have contributed to the development of ...