 Entrance to Kreftforeningen, Kongens gate in Oslo, Norway | |
| Formation | 1938 |
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Key people | Anne Lise Ryel (secretary general) Gunn-Elin Aasprong Bjørneboe (chair person) Carl Otto Løvenskiold (deputy chair person) |
| Website | kreftforeningen |
The Norwegian Cancer Society (Norwegian : Kreftforeningen) is a non-profitmaking organisation in Norway. [1]
It was established as Norsk Forening til Kreftens Bekjempelse in 1938, and took the current name when it merged with Landsforeningen mot Kreft in 1948. Its purpose is to help patients with cancer, increase awareness of cancer and to fund cancer research. [2] The society funds the annual King Olav V's Prize for Cancer Research.
The Secretary general is Anne Lise Ryel, and the board of directors consists of Gunn-Elin Aasprong Bjørneboe (chair), Carl Otto Løvenskiold (deputy chair), Tone Nordøy, Wenche Frogn Sellæg, Jostein Christian Dalland, Tord Dale, Lars A. Akslen, Grete Wennes, Anine Kierulf and Else Støring. [3] The organizational headquarters are in Kongens gate 6 in Oslo.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway.
Jon Sudbø is a Norwegian dentist, physician, and former medical researcher, who was exposed as a scientific fraudster in 2006. Over a period of several years, he fabricated results in the field of oncology which he published in leading medical journals. The article that led to his downfall, which was published in The Lancet, was based on 900 patients Sudbø had fabricated entirely. The editor of The Lancet described this as the biggest scientific fraud conducted by a single researcher ever.
Guro Fjellanger was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She served as Minister of the Environment in the first cabinet Bondevik from 1997 to 2000. She was a private consultant and a board member of several government agencies and organisations, and a member of two government-appointed commissions.
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Events in the year 1966 in Norway.
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