Urpilainen, Elina
Marttila, Mikko
Hautakoski, Ari
Arffman, Martti
Sund, Reijo
Ilanne-Parikka, Pirjo
Arima, Reetta
Kangaskokko, Jenni
Puistola, Ulla
Hinkula, Marianne
Läärä, Esa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jane ja Aatos Erkon Säätiö (T59127)
The Cancer Foundation of Finland (T59129)
Finnish Government Research Funds (K77729)
Article History
Received: 8 March 2018
Accepted: 18 July 2018
First Online: 28 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to Finnish legislation, no separate ethical approval or informed consent is needed for studies that utilise only administrative registers. However, ethical approval was obtained for the FinDM study from the research ethics committee of National Institute of Health and Welfare (30.1.2014, meeting 1/2014, §609). Permissions to use data were obtained from the maintainers of original registers (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Social Insurance Institution, Statistics Finland).
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