Pharmacoepidemiological studies of drug-cancer associations

Speaker: Anton Pottegård, MSc, PhD, University of Southern Denmark (Dept of Clinical Pharmacology)


The webinar will provide an overview of general considerations for the planning and conduct of pharmacoepidemiological studies of associations between drug use and cancer development. The webinar will use as a starting point a recently published methods review (Pottegård et al. BCPT 2017) and will primarily focus on choice of study design and exposure ascertainment, while also covering choice of data sources, ascertainment of cancer outcomes, confounder adjustment and future perspectives in drug-cancer research. The presentation will be targeted at those with an intermediate or higher understanding of general pharmacoepidemiological principles but with limited to moderate experience specifically with the conduct of drug-cancer studies. 

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