Grant recieved in 2023
DCCC has funded 196.250 DKK to the initiative.
Social inequality in cancer is a major health policy and clinical focus area. However, knowledge of inequality across different types of cancers and over time is limited due to significant variations in how inequality is measured and analyzed at different institutions. These divergent approaches across different types of cancer and institutions increase the risk of misinterpretations with potentially serious consequences for the treatment of cancer patients.
Therefore, there is a need for greater cohesion regarding the use of indicators for inequality and how they are analytically processed, so that ultimately, valid research emerges for the benefit of individual cancer patients.
The purpose of this national, interdisciplinary initiative is to facilitate a common, national research practice to address inequality in cancer care.
The project stakeholders expect that the initiative and the development of national guidelines will strengthen the research that enhances the possibilities of targeted efforts to address inequality in cancer, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Multidisciplinary organisation
This initiative is anchored in the DCCC-supported national research center, Danish Research Center for Equality in Cancer (COMPAS), which is dedicated to reducing social inequality in cancer care in Denmark, as well as the National Network for Obesity and Cancer Research (ObeCaRe).
Project stakeholder
Capital Region of Denmark
- Maja Halgren Hjort, Postdoc, MSc, PhD, Survivorship and Inequality in Cancer, The Danish Cancer Society Research Center. Primary contact, e-mail: majols@cancer.dk
Central Denmark Region
- Chathrine Fnnesbech Olsen, pPostdoc, MSc, PhD, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital
- Deirdre Cronon Fonton, Associate Professor, BSc, PhD, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital
Region Zealand
- Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton, Professor, MD, PhD, Head of Danish Research Center for Equality in Cancer (COMPAS), Department of Oncology and Palliative Care, Zealand University Hospital & head of the research Group , Survivorship and Inequality in Cancer, The Danish Cancer Society Research Center
Events
SEPLINE workshop 1: Measures of socioeconomic position, March 2024
SEPLINE workshop 2: Analysing socioeconomic differences, September 2024