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Professor Jan Stjernswärd M.D., Ph.D, Hon. FRCP(Edin) (born 1936) is an oncologist, specialising in palliative care.

Early life
Jan Stjernswärd was born on June 2, 1936 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the first son of Carl Adam Stjernswärd and Anne Marie (Monrad-Aas) Stjernswärd. His father Major Carl Adam Stjernswärd, was a swedish military man. His mother was of Danish descent. Stjernswärd attended public schools in Helsingborg, Sweden and then studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Professional activities
Stjernswärd earned his medical degree from the Karolinska Institute in 1962 and subsequently worked as a research fellow at the Institute for tumor biology 1963-68, thereby earning his PhD in 1967 and became docent in tumor biology in 1967. He worked as a specialist in oncology and radiotherapy at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi 1967-68 and at Radiumhemmet, Karolinska University Hospital 1968-72. He then became chief of the department of clinical oncology at the University of Lausanne and associate professor Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne 1973-78 and subsequently director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Inselspital in Bern 1978-80. He was the first to use meta-analysis in the analysis of controlled clinical trials 1974. From 1980 to 1996, he worked for the World Health Organization, as their chief of cancer. In 1982, under the leadership of Jan Stjernswärd, WHO enlisted the aid of hospice-care leaders and cancer pain specialists, plus pharnaceutical manufacturers to develop a global Programme for Cancer Pain Relief. While in that role he instigated development of the 'WHO Three-Step Pain Ladder' and worked to improve cancer care globally.

Selected works

 * Klein, G.; Clifford, P.; Klein, E.; Stjernswärd, J. "Search for tumor-specific immune reactions in Burkitt Lymphoma patients by the membrande immunofluorescence reaction." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Jun 1966, 55(6):1628-1635


 * Stjernswärd, J. (1967). “Studies on host immune status and tumor-host relationships in hydrocarbon carcinogenesis.” Dissertation. Stockholm, Sweden.


 * Stjernswärd J (1974) "Decreased survival related to irradiation postoperatively in early breastcancer." Lancet 304:1285-1286


 * World Health Organization. ‎1986. "Cancer pain relief."


 * Stjernswärd J. "WHO Cancer pain relief programme." Cancer Surveys 1988;7:195-208


 * Stjernswärd, J. Palliative medicine – a global perspective. In: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine pp 805-816, Oxford University Press 1993.ISBN 0 19 262028 2


 * World Health Organization. (‎1995)‎. "National cancer control programmes: policies and managerial guidelines."


 * Stjernswärd J, Colleau SM, Ventafridda V. "The World Health Organization Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Program. Past, present, and future." J Pain Symptom Manage. 1996 Aug;12(2):65-72. PMID:8754982


 * Stjernswärd J (2002) "Uganda: Initiating a government public health approach to pain relief and palliative care." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 24 (2), pp. 257-264.


 * Stjernsward J., Foley K.M., Ferris F.D. (2007) "Integrating Palliative Care into National Policies." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 33 (5), pp. 514-520.


 * Stjernswärd J (2009) "Meta-analysis as a manifestation of ‘bondförnuft’ (‘peasant sense’)."
 * Stjernswärd J (2013) "Personal reflections on contributions to pain relief, palliative care and global cancer control." JLL Bulletin: Commentaries on the history of treatment evaluation.