Claudia Kuehni (Principal Investigator) and Carina Nigg (Co-Applicant) have received funding from Swiss Cancer Research for their project «Exploring time trends and clusters of health behaviours among childhood cancer survivors in Switzerland».
They will explore how health behaviors, including smoking, alcohol drinking, physical activity, and diet have changed over the last 20 years in children, adolescents, and adults who survived childhood cancer, and to see if they can find health behaviour patterns. The project will leverage data from the long-term Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS), which includes more than 4,000 childhood cancer survivors.
The project collaborates with partners from multiple organizations and institutions, including the Inselspital Bern and the University Hospital of Lausanne, the Sports and Sports Science Institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), the North-American Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), and the association Childhood Cancer Switzerland.
The grant will fund a PhD student and a postdoctoral researcher for the next three years.
