Research Group: Cancer

Group members

Group leader

Name / Titel: Rohner Eliane, MD MSc
Funktion: Head of Research Group
Mail: eliane.rohner@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 23

Group members

Egger Matthias, Prof. Dr. med., MSc FFPH DTM&H

Name / Titel: Egger Matthias, Prof. Dr. med., MSc FFPH DTM&H
Funktion: Head of Research Group
Mail: matthias.egger@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 01

Name / Titel: Schmidlin Kurt, Dr. med. dent., MPH
Funktion: Senior Research Fellow
Mail: kurt.schmidlin@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 36 73

Name / Titel: Spörri Adrian, PhD, MPH
Funktion: Head of Research Group
Mail: adrian.spoerri@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 50

Taghavi Katayoun, Dr. med., FRANZCOG, MMedSc

Name / Titel: Taghavi Katayoun, Dr. med., FRANZCOG, MMedSc
Funktion: PhD student
Mail: katayoun.taghavi@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 34 72

Name / Titel: Turdo Yannick
Funktion: Research Assistant
Mail: yannick.turdo@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 56 75

Name / Titel: Zwahlen Marcel, Prof., PhD
Funktion: Director a.i.
Mail: marcel.zwahlen@ispm.unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 54

Ongoing projects

Creating a South African HIV cohort with cancer outcomes based on routine laboratory data: The South African Cancer Match Study (SAM)
Adrian Spörri, Eliane Rohner, Matthias Egger, Julia Bohlius
Comparison of cervical cancer screening strategies for HIV-positive women in Zambia
Katayoun Taghavi, Nicola Low, Julia Bohlius
The Cervical Cancer Care Cascade: evaluation of cervical cancer screening in HIV-positive women in Zimbabwe
Eliane Rohner, Katayoun Taghavi, Matthias Egger, Julia Bohlius
Clinical stage and treatment of epidemic Kaposi sarcoma in South Africa, Malawi, and Zambia: an international comparison
Eliane Rohner, Julia Bohlius
Cancer in HIV-infected persons in Malawi: a probabilistic record linkage study with the Malawi National Cancer Registry
Adrian Spörri, Julia Bohlius
Cancer in HIV-infected persons in Zimbabwe: a probabilistic record linkage study with the Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry
Adrian Spörri, Julia Bohlius
Risk of invasive cervical cancer in HIV-positive women on ART: a global analysis
Eliane Rohner, Lukas Bütikofer, Kurt Schmidlin, Marcel Zwahlen, Matthias Egger, Julia Bohlius
Risk of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in HIV-positive adults on ART: a global analysis
Eliane Rohner, Lukas Bütikofer, Kurt Schmidlin, Marcel Zwahlen, Matthias Egger, Julia Bohlius
Access to clinical study reports from the European Medicines Agency and its effects on reporting bias
Thomy Tonia, Eliane Rohner, Julia Bohlius

Completed projects

Cervical cancer risk in HIV-positive women in South Africa
- Cervical cancer risk and impact of Pap-based screening in HIV-positive women on antiretroviral therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Risk of Kaposi Sarcoma in HIV-positive children and adults on ART: a global analysis
- Comparison of Kaposi sarcoma risk in HIV-positive adults across five continents: a multiregional multicohort study.
- Kaposi Sarcoma risk in HIV-infected children and adolescents on combination antiretroviral therapy from sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Probabilistic record linkage studies to improve cancer ascertainment in pediatric and adult HIV cohorts in South Africa
- Record linkage to correct under-ascertainment of cancers in HIV cohorts: The Sinikithemba HIV clinic linkage project.
- Incidence of AIDS-defining and other cancers in HIV-positive children in South Africa: record linkage study.
Association of human herpesvirus 8, HIV and sex: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
- Is human herpesvirus 8 infection more common in men than in women? Systematic review and meta-analysis.
- HIV and human herpesvirus 8 co-infection across the globe: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
- HHV-8 seroprevalence in HIV-positive and HIV-negative populations.
- HHV-8 seroprevalence: a global view.
Kaposi Sarcoma incidence rates and risk factors in HIV-positive patients after starting combination antiretroviral therapy in Europe
- Changing incidence and risk factors for Kaposi Sarcoma by time since starting antiretroviral therapy: collaborative analysis of 21 European cohort studies.
Kaposi sarcoma risk in HIV-positive population in Southern Africa
- Incidence rate of Kaposi sarcoma in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Southern Africa: a prospective multicohort study.
- Kaposi's Sarcoma in HIV-infected patients in South Africa: Multicohort study in the antiretroviral therapy era.
Hodgkin lymphoma, CD4 and reverse causality
- HIV-1-related Hodgkin lymphoma in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy: incidence and evolution of CD4⁺ T-cell lymphocytes.
- Hodgkin lymphoma in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study.
  Risk and prognosis of HIV-positive adults in Europe developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Incidence and risk factors of HIV-related non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy: a European multicohort study.
- Prognosis of HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma in patients starting combination antiretroviral therapy.
Prevention of infectious complications in cancer patients receiving myelosuppressive therapy
The effects of erythropoiesis-stimulating factors in cancer patients

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

Research Group: Cancer

Group members

Group leader

Group members

Ongoing projects

Ongoing projects

Completed projects

Completed projects