| Summary: | Papers in this thesis: I: Gram, Inger Torhild, Lund-Larsen, Per G., Rosenlund, Alf Frimann, Størmer, Jan: ‘Mammografiscreening i Tromsø’. Særtrykk av Tidsskrift for Den norske Lægeforening nr. 10, 1989;109, s. 1040-1042. II: I T Gram and S E Slenker : ‘Cancer anxiety and attitudes toward mammography among screening attenders, nonattenders, and women never invited’,. American Journal of Public Health: February 1992, Vol. 82, No. 2: 249–251 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.82.2.249 ) III: IT Gram, E Lund and SE Slenker: ‘Quality of life following a false positive mammogram’. British Journal of Cancer, 1990 62, 1018-1022 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1990.430 ) IV: Inger T. Gram, Harland Austin, and Helge Stalsberg: Cigarette Smoking and the Incidence of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia, Grade III, and Cancer of the Cervix Uteri, Am. J. Epidemiol. (1992) 135 (4): 341-346. V: Inger T. Gram, Maurizio Macaluso, Helge Stalsberg: ‘ Oral contraceptive use and the incident of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia’. (Manuscript) Published version: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 167, Issue 1, July 1992, Pages 40–44 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9378(11)91622-6 ) VI: Inger Torhild Gram, Maurizio Macaluso, Jeanetta Churchill, Helge Stalsberg: ‘Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade III’, 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp 231-236 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00124256 ) The purpose of the thesis was to investigate aspects of breast cancer screening such as the feasibility, non-attendance and adverse effects of a general mammography screening program. A second objective was to examine whether risk factors for cervical neoplasia could be identified for potential utilization in a selective screening program for cervical cancer.
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