Marcus Westerberg
Postdoctoral position at Department of Surgical Sciences; Urology
- E-mail:
- marcus.westerberg@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 70, 1 tr
751 85 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 70, 1 tr
751 85 UPPSALA
Download contact information for Marcus Westerberg at Department of Surgical Sciences; Urology
Short presentation
Docent in medical epidemiology and postdoc in Pär Stattin's research group PCBase
Keywords
- prostate cancer
- colorectal cancer
- comorbidity
- screening
- epidemiology
- statistics
Biography
2012-2017 Bachelor and masters in mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University
2022 PhD in applied mathematics and statistics, Department of mathematics, Uppsala University
2025 Docent in medical epidemiology, Department of surgical sciences, Uppsala University

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, p. 1142-1150, 2025
- DOI for Incidence and prognostic implications of prostate-specific antigen persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy: population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Incidence and prognostic implications of prostate-specific antigen persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy: population-based study
Long-Term Outcomes After Guideline-Recommended Treatment of Men With Prostate Cancer
Part of The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2025
Part of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2024
- DOI for Target trial emulation using new comorbidity indices provided risk estimates comparable to a randomized trial
- Download full text (pdf) of Target trial emulation using new comorbidity indices provided risk estimates comparable to a randomized trial
Part of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, p. 513-521, 2022
Recent publications
Cohort Profile Update: The National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and PCBase
Part of International Journal of Epidemiology, 2025
- DOI for Cohort Profile Update: The National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and PCBase
- Download full text (pdf) of Cohort Profile Update: The National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and PCBase
Part of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, p. 391-399, 2025
Part of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, p. 1142-1150, 2025
- DOI for Incidence and prognostic implications of prostate-specific antigen persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy: population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Incidence and prognostic implications of prostate-specific antigen persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy: population-based study
Part of European Urology Open Science, p. 41-50, 2025
- DOI for Adaption of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Nomograms for the Prediction of Pros tate Cancer-specific Death in Sweden: A Population-based Cohort Study
- Download full text (pdf) of Adaption of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Nomograms for the Prediction of Pros tate Cancer-specific Death in Sweden: A Population-based Cohort Study
Long-Term Outcomes After Guideline-Recommended Treatment of Men With Prostate Cancer
Part of The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2025
All publications
Articles in journal
Cohort Profile Update: The National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and PCBase
Part of International Journal of Epidemiology, 2025
- DOI for Cohort Profile Update: The National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and PCBase
- Download full text (pdf) of Cohort Profile Update: The National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden and PCBase
Part of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, p. 391-399, 2025
Part of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, p. 1142-1150, 2025
- DOI for Incidence and prognostic implications of prostate-specific antigen persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy: population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Incidence and prognostic implications of prostate-specific antigen persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy: population-based study
Part of European Urology Open Science, p. 41-50, 2025
- DOI for Adaption of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Nomograms for the Prediction of Pros tate Cancer-specific Death in Sweden: A Population-based Cohort Study
- Download full text (pdf) of Adaption of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Nomograms for the Prediction of Pros tate Cancer-specific Death in Sweden: A Population-based Cohort Study
Long-Term Outcomes After Guideline-Recommended Treatment of Men With Prostate Cancer
Part of The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2025
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 93-96, 2025
- DOI for Prostate cancer incidence in Sweden before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Prostate cancer incidence in Sweden before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Population-based study
A comparison of comorbidity indices and estimates of life expectancy for men with prostate cancer
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 105-107, 2025
- DOI for A comparison of comorbidity indices and estimates of life expectancy for men with prostate cancer
- Download full text (pdf) of A comparison of comorbidity indices and estimates of life expectancy for men with prostate cancer
Metastatic risk in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a tool incorporating sex, size, and grade
Part of BJU International, p. 760-765, 2025
Radical Treatment for Prostate Cancer in Men With Limited Life Expectancy in Sweden
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2025
- DOI for Radical Treatment for Prostate Cancer in Men With Limited Life Expectancy in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Radical Treatment for Prostate Cancer in Men With Limited Life Expectancy in Sweden
Part of JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2025
- DOI for Functional outcomes after primary vs delayed robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following active surveillance
- Download full text (pdf) of Functional outcomes after primary vs delayed robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following active surveillance
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 50-58, 2025
- DOI for Improved adherence to prostate cancer guidelines concomitant with public reporting. Nationwide population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Improved adherence to prostate cancer guidelines concomitant with public reporting. Nationwide population-based study
Part of JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2024
- DOI for Colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical testing or primary colonoscopy: inequities in diagnostic yield
- Download full text (pdf) of Colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical testing or primary colonoscopy: inequities in diagnostic yield
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 207-209, 2024
- DOI for Assessment of variability in life expectancy in older men by use of new comorbidity indices: A nationwide population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Assessment of variability in life expectancy in older men by use of new comorbidity indices: A nationwide population-based study
Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Development and validation of a multi-dimensional diagnosis-based comorbidity index that improves prediction of death in men with prostate cancer: Nationwide, population-based register study
- Download full text (pdf) of Development and validation of a multi-dimensional diagnosis-based comorbidity index that improves prediction of death in men with prostate cancer: Nationwide, population-based register study
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 98-103, 2024
- DOI for Risk of prostate cancer death in men diagnosed with prostate cancer at cystoprostatectomy. A nationwide populationbased study
- Download full text (pdf) of Risk of prostate cancer death in men diagnosed with prostate cancer at cystoprostatectomy. A nationwide populationbased study
Part of European Urology Oncology, p. 605-613, 2024
Part of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2024
- DOI for Target trial emulation using new comorbidity indices provided risk estimates comparable to a randomized trial
- Download full text (pdf) of Target trial emulation using new comorbidity indices provided risk estimates comparable to a randomized trial
Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 187-199, 2024
- DOI for Colonoscopy findings after increasing two-stool faecal immunochemical test (FIT) cut-off: Cross-sectional analysis of the SCREESCO randomized trial
- Download full text (pdf) of Colonoscopy findings after increasing two-stool faecal immunochemical test (FIT) cut-off: Cross-sectional analysis of the SCREESCO randomized trial
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, p. 503-511, 2024
- DOI for The role of endoscopist adenoma detection rate in in sex differences in colonoscopy findings: cross-sectional analysis of the SCREESCO randomized controlled trial
- Download full text (pdf) of The role of endoscopist adenoma detection rate in in sex differences in colonoscopy findings: cross-sectional analysis of the SCREESCO randomized controlled trial
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2023
- DOI for Survival Trend in Individuals With De Novo Metastatic Prostate Cancer After the Introduction of Doublet Therapy
- Download full text (pdf) of Survival Trend in Individuals With De Novo Metastatic Prostate Cancer After the Introduction of Doublet Therapy
Part of Gastroenterology, p. 293-2950000, 2023
Design considerations for observational studies of drugs for advanced cancer
Part of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, p. 812-815, 2023
- DOI for Design considerations for observational studies of drugs for advanced cancer
- Download full text (pdf) of Design considerations for observational studies of drugs for advanced cancer
Estimation in discrete time coarsened multivariate longitudinal models
Part of Statistical Methods in Medical Research, p. 806-819, 2023
- DOI for Estimation in discrete time coarsened multivariate longitudinal models
- Download full text (pdf) of Estimation in discrete time coarsened multivariate longitudinal models
Part of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, p. 22-30, 2023
- DOI for Choice of imputation method for missing metastatic status affected estimates of metastatic prostate cancer incidence.
- Download full text (pdf) of Choice of imputation method for missing metastatic status affected estimates of metastatic prostate cancer incidence.
Part of Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, p. 1070-107000000000, 2023
- DOI for Real World Outcomes in Patients With Metastatic, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Treated With Radium-223 in Routine Clinical Practice in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Real World Outcomes in Patients With Metastatic, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Treated With Radium-223 in Routine Clinical Practice in Sweden
Part of BJUI Compass, p. 173-183, 2022
- DOI for Mortality in men with castration‐resistant prostate cancer—A long‐term follow‐up of a population‐based real‐world cohort
- Download full text (pdf) of Mortality in men with castration‐resistant prostate cancer—A long‐term follow‐up of a population‐based real‐world cohort
Part of PLOS ONE, 2022
- DOI for Diagnostic activity impacts lifetime risk of prostate cancer diagnosis more strongly than life expectancy
- Download full text (pdf) of Diagnostic activity impacts lifetime risk of prostate cancer diagnosis more strongly than life expectancy
Part of European Urology Open Science, p. 81-87, 2022
- DOI for Changes in Characteristics of Men with Lethal Prostate Cancer During the Past 25 Years: Description of Population-based Deaths
- Download full text (pdf) of Changes in Characteristics of Men with Lethal Prostate Cancer During the Past 25 Years: Description of Population-based Deaths
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 365-366, 2022
Part of European Urology Open Science, p. 46-51, 2022
- DOI for Modeling Disease Trajectories for Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Using Nationwide Population-based Data
- Download full text (pdf) of Modeling Disease Trajectories for Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Using Nationwide Population-based Data
Part of Scandinavian journal of urology, p. 169-175, 2022
- DOI for Time to castration-resistant prostate cancer and prostate cancer death according to PSA response in men with non-metastatic prostate cancer treated with gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists
- Download full text (pdf) of Time to castration-resistant prostate cancer and prostate cancer death according to PSA response in men with non-metastatic prostate cancer treated with gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists
Part of Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, p. 2120-2130, 2022
Part of eClinicalMedicine, 2022
- DOI for Colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical testing or primary colonoscopy: An analysis of health equity based on a randomised trial
- Download full text (pdf) of Colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical testing or primary colonoscopy: An analysis of health equity based on a randomised trial
Part of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, p. 513-521, 2022
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2021
- DOI for Variation in Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Rates and Prostate Cancer Treatments and Outcomes in a National 20-Year Cohort
- Download full text (pdf) of Variation in Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Rates and Prostate Cancer Treatments and Outcomes in a National 20-Year Cohort
Simulation model of disease incidence driven by diagnostic activity
Part of Statistics in Medicine, p. 1172-1188, 2021
- DOI for Simulation model of disease incidence driven by diagnostic activity
- Download full text (pdf) of Simulation model of disease incidence driven by diagnostic activity
Part of BJU International, p. 142-151, 2020
- DOI for Changes in treatment and mortality in men with locally advanced prostate cancer between 2000 and 2016: a nationwide, population-based study in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Changes in treatment and mortality in men with locally advanced prostate cancer between 2000 and 2016: a nationwide, population-based study in Sweden
Part of Acta Oncologica, p. 106-111, 2020
- DOI for Temporal changes in survival in men with de novo metastatic prostate cancer: nationwide population-based study
- Download full text (pdf) of Temporal changes in survival in men with de novo metastatic prostate cancer: nationwide population-based study
Part of PLOS ONE, 2020
- DOI for Prediction of metastatic prostate cancer by prostate-specific antigen in combination with T stage and Gleason Grade: Nationwide, population-based register study
- Download full text (pdf) of Prediction of metastatic prostate cancer by prostate-specific antigen in combination with T stage and Gleason Grade: Nationwide, population-based register study
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
2022