Kejia Hu
Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail: kejia.hu@ki.se
Visiting address: Nobels väg 13, 17177 Solna
Postal address: C6 Institutet för miljömedicin, C6 Integrativ epidemiologi Fang, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am a postdoc with a research focus on cancer and mental health.
Education:
2015, MD, Central South University
2018, Msc in Oncology, Sichuan University
2022, PhD, Karolinska Institutet
Research
- One of my research interests is cancer epidemiology, including the prevention, incidence and prognosis of cancer, and comorbidities between
cancer and other chronic diseases, especially mental health-related. Another current focus is mental health.
My work has been focused on:
1. Psychosocial risk factors and cancer incidence
In my doctoral thesis, I have studied psychological distress as a risk factor for the incidence of breast cancer, and whether anti-inflammatory medications could play a role in the prevention of breast cancer.
2. Mental health in cancer patients and their families
I have studied the risk of mental disorders among patients with cancer and their spouses, and whether anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial medications could counteract the increased risk.
3. Prognostic factors of cancer
I have studied the prognostic role of endocrine treatment, circulating vitamin D and neuroendocrine gene mutations in breast cancer, and inflammation-based prognostic score in lung cancer.
Teaching
Supervision experience:
co-supervise PhD student Ioannis Psychogios (PhD student at Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet)
Visiting researcher Xiaowan Chen (currently chief surgeon at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University)
Visiting PhD student Yanping Yang (PhD student at Guangxi Medical University)
Master student Run Shi (Master's Programme in Biomedicine, Karolinska Institutet)
Master student Hyemi Park (Master's Programme in Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet)
Articles
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2025;16(1):6193
- Article: BMJ MEDICINE. 2025;4(1):e001129
- Article: BMC MEDICINE. 2024;22(1):460
- Article: JAMA ONCOLOGY. 2024;10(10):1323-1330
- Article: LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH. 2024;9(9):e674-e683
- Article: BMC MEDICINE. 2024;22(1):319
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2024;15(1):5064
- Article: PLOS MEDICINE. 2024;21(3):e1004372
- Article: BMC MEDICINE. 2024;22(1):63
- Article: BJPSYCH OPEN. 2024;10(2):e37
- Journal article: EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 2023;75:s15
- Journal article: EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 2023;75:s106
- Article: JAMA NETWORK OPEN. 2023;6(9):e2336213
- Article: LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;8(4):e266-e275
- Article: BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS. 2023;5(2):fcad065
- Article: JAMA NETWORK OPEN. 2023;6(1):e2249560
- Article: FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY. 2023;13:1111480
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2022;127(10):1886-1892
- Article: CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION. 2022;31(3):528-535
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2021;125(10):1450-1458
- Journal article: ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 2021;32:s452
- Article: BMC CANCER. 2021;21(1):491
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2021;148(1):28-37
- Article: ELIFE. 2020;9:e61469
- Article: JMIR MEDICAL INFORMATICS. 2020;8(11):e19069
- Article: BREAST CANCER. 2019;26(3):339-348
- Journal article: ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 2019;30:iii68
- Journal article: ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 2019;30:iii66
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS. 2019;103(4):905-912
- Article: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. 2018;66(7):2053-2064
- Article: INTEGRATIVE CANCER THERAPIES. 2018;17(2):217-225
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS. 2018;33(2):201-207
- Article: MEDICINE. 2017;96(22):e7048
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2017;12(9):e0184412
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All other publications
- Conference publication: CANCER SCIENCE. 2025;116:408
- Doctoral thesis: 2022
- Conference publication: GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2022;46(7):517
- Conference publication: CANCER RESEARCH. 2020;80(16):4628
- Conference publication: ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 2019;30
- Conference publication: ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 2019;30
- Review: CHINESE CLINICAL ONCOLOGY. 2018;7(3):24
Grants
- National Natural Science Foundation of China1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021
Employments
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2025
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2022