Interdisciplinary research project on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the health care of chronic diseases focusing on patients with type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer
Project consisting of four modules, Epidemiology, Disease Management, Prevention and Health Economics targeting disease-specific research questions
Descriptive secondary data analysis of routinely-collected health data of Bavaria
Population-based case-control study with 200 cases of newly diagnosed cervical cancer and 600 controls from Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and neighboring regions in Baden-Württemberg, Hessen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt
Analysis of the frequency of participation in cervical cancer screening
Evaluation of the quality of cytology
Funding: Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
Risk-adapted prevention strategies for colorectal cancer (RaPS)
Multicenter study on the prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) among persons with a family history of CRC
Design and implementation of risk-adapted CRC screening strategies
Identification and evaluation of novel biomarkers for noninvasive risk stratification and early detection
Study sites: Heidelberg (project leaderhip), Stuttgart, Munich and Dresden