Search for dissertations about: "PAP-smears"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word PAP-smears.
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1. Cervical cancer screening. Knowledge, attitudes and experiences among women and midwives
Abstract : Population based cervical cancer screening (CCS), performed by midwives, to detect cellularatypia before it develops into cancer, has been in force in Sweden since the 1970s. Thepositive effects of the subsequent decline in morbidity and mortality due to cervix cancer arewell documented but does screening also have negative consequences?Aims: To investigate knowledge about, attitudes to and experience of CCS (i) among womenin general, (ii) among women with experience of two mildly atypical Pap smears, (iii) amongwomen diagnosed with cervical cancer and (iv) among midwives who manage CCS. READ MORE
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2. Women’s encounters with biomedical technology in the realm of cervical cancer screening
Abstract : As a form of biomedical technology, the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear has been described as the most widely used and established cane er- screening tool in the world. In Sweden, Pap smear technology triggered what is today an established secondary preventive intervention directed towards 'healthy' women to detect those at risk for developing cervical cancer, a potentially fatal disease, as well as those with the disease. READ MORE
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3. Kvinnohälsa i perspektiv : studier med barnmorskor och läkare samt med kvinnor som vårdbrukare : exempel från cervixcancerscreening och obstetrisk vård av omskurna kvinnor
Abstract : In this thesis two areas of women's health are examined from different stakeholder perspectives. The areas are cervical cancer screening (CCS; articles I, III, V) and obstetrical care of circumcised/infibulated women (articles II, IV). READ MORE
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4. Human papilloma virus : association with vulvovaginitis and genital intra-epithelial neoplasia
Abstract : In many women with gynecological complaints such as itching, burning, discharge, and fissures causing dyspareunia, examination of the vulvovaginal mucosa reveals hyperkeratotic and papillomatous changes. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique revealed 64% of such lesions to harbour Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)- DNA, whereas Southern blot (SB) technique showed 50% to be positive for HPV- DNA. READ MORE
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5. Molecular epidemiology of human papillomavirus and cervical cancer
Abstract : Background: Cervical carcinoma is globally the second most common malignant disease in women accounting for approximately 10 % of all cancers in women worldwide. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) known to be the main causative agent of cervical preinvasive and invasive neoplasia. READ MORE