Prof. Hans-Olov Adami

With a long background as a practicing surgeon with a focus on oncology, Prof. Adami has always conducted clinical and epidemiologic research in parallel. His clinical research includes randomized trials, prognostic studies, and studies of clinical issues using an observational study design.

Over the years, however, his focus has been on cancer epidemiology, and he has worked on a large number of cancer sites and types. Within that area, he has been interested in a large number of cancer sites and types and carried out both prospective and case-control studies often on a large-scale within Sweden.

Currently, he is working predominantly on prostate cancer, (with research ranging from genetic association studies to randomized trials of radical surgical treatment, and prediction of outcome using molecular and genetic markers), malignant lymphomas, cervical cancer (with a focus on viral load as a possible determinant of progression from precursors to invasive cancer), and breast cancer. He is also involved in planning a large prospective cohort study in Sweden, and integrating this with other similar initiatives around the globe.

Much of his research over the last decade has been carried out in close collaboration with professor Trichopoulos at the Harvard School of Public Health and also with other researchers, post docs and graduate students at the SPH.