• Early performance measures following regular versus irregular screening attendance in the population-based screening program for breast cancer in Norway 

      Thy, Jonas Evensen; Larsen, Marthe; Vigeland, Einar; Koch, Henrik Wethe; Hovda, Tone; Hofvind, Solveig Sand-Hanssen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-11)
      Irregular attendance in breast cancer screening has been associated with higher breast cancer mortality compared to regular attendance. Early performance measures of a screening program following regular versus irregular screening attendance have been less studied. We aimed to investigate early performance measures following regular versus irregular screening attendance. Methods We used information ...
    • Early screening outcomes among non-immigrants and immigrants targeted by BreastScreen Norway, 2010–2019 

      Thy, Jonas Evensen; Bhargava, Sameer; Larsen, Marthe; Akslen, Lars Andreas; Hofvind, Solveig Sand-Hanssen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-31)
      Aims: This study aimed to analyse results on early screening outcomes, including recall and cancer rates, and histopathological tumour characteristics among non-immigrants and immigrants invited to BreastScreen Norway. Methods: We included information about 2, 763,230 invitations and 2,087,222 screening examinations from 805,543 women aged 50–69 years who were invited to BreastScreen Norway between ...
    • Effect of invitation letter in language of origin on screening attendance: randomised controlled trial in BreastScreen Norway 

      Hofvind, Solveig Sand-Hanssen; Iqbal, Nadia; Thy, Jonas Evensen; Mangerud, Gunhild; Bhargava, Sameer; Zackrisson, Sophia; Berstad, Paula (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-19)
      Objective<p> <p>To explore attendance at organised mammographic screening among immigrant groups that received an invitation letter and information leaflet (invitation) in their language of origin and Norwegian compared with Norwegian only.<p> <p>Design <p>Randomised controlled trial. <p>Setting <p>Population based screening programme for breast cancer in Norway (BreastScreen Norway), which invites ...
    • Participation and cancer detection after reminders versus ordinary invitations in BreastScreen Norway 

      Thy, Jonas Evensen; Vigeland, Einar; Larsen, Marthe; Hofvind, Solveig Sand-Hanssen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-03)
      Objectives - To compare attendance, recall and cancer detection as well as histopathological tumor characteristics among women attending BreastScreen Norway after a reminder versus an ordinary invitation.<p> <p>Setting - This study was conducted on data from a population-based screening program inviting women aged 50–69 to biennial two-view mammography.<p> <p>Methods - We used de-identified ...
    • Sociodemographic factors, health indicators and lifestyle factors among participants in BreastScreen Norway 2006-2016 – a cohort profile 

      Robsahm, Trude Eid; Sagstad, Silje; Thy, Jonas Evensen; Hofvind, Solveig Sand-Hanssen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-12)
      Purpose: To collect information on sociodemographic factors, health indicators, and lifestyle factors in women who attended the nationwide breast cancer-screening program, BreastScreen Norway, with the aim of investigating how these factors influence the risk of breast cancer, other cancer types, and cancer-related outcomes. <p>Participants: The cohort data includes self-reported responses to ...