Magdalena Claeson

Affiliated to Research

Department of Dermatology and Venereology

Mail

magdalena.claeson@gu.se

Visiting address

Gröna stråket 16 Pl 2 SU/Sahlgrensk

41345 Göteborg

Postal address

Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset

41345 Göteborg

About Magdalena Claeson

I am a consultant dermatologist and a postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in Medical 91̽��.

Between 2013 and 2017, I served as a course coordinator for the Dermatology course during the Programme in Medicine at the University 91̽��.

Research focus area

My area of expertise is within skin cancer epidemiology. For example, I have published data from a prospective cohort study with 40,000 participants where we identified risk factors fo the common skin cancer keratoacanthoma: older age, male sex, fair skin type, inability to tan, smoking and alcohol ().

My primary research interest is in melanoma of the skin, where I have published a study on the alarming increase in melanoma incidence in Western Sweden during the past decades (). Further, we have studied thin (≤ 1 mm thickness) melanoma and have shown that thin tumours constitute the majority of melanomas diagnosed in Western Sweden (55%) (), resulting in high health care costs and suffering from the patients. People diagnosed with a thin melanoma generally have high survival rates. However, thin tumours still cause a substantial proportion of deaths due to the volume of disease. That is why I have focused my research also on identifying prognostic factors for thin melanoma. In a population-based registry study from Queensland, Australia, we found that tumours located on the scalp have 6 times higher risk of death (). Since 2020, I am an invited member of the Swedish Melanoma Study Group (SMSG).

International postdoc

From 2018 until 2020, I was working as a postdoctoral fellow in skin cancer epidemiology and experimental dermatology at the and at the .

My research in the media

Read more about my research on keratoacanthoma in a press release from QIMR Berghofer: .

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