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Introduktion: Bröstcancer är den vanligaste cancerform som drabbar kvinnor, tidig upptäckt är en viktig del för en ökad överlevnad i sjukdomen. Variationer i kunskap och utbildning gällande bröstcancer samt attityder kring undersökningsmetoder tenderar att påverka kvinnors tolkning av symptom och deras beslut att söka eller delta i screening/vård. Syfte: Att beskriva kunskaper om bröstcancer och attityder kring mammografiundersökning och självundersökning av bröst hos kvinnor med olika kulturell bakgrund som är bosatta i Sverige. Design: En kvalitativ studie med intervjumetodik. Metod: Studien utfördes med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer med öppna intervjufrågor. Ett strategiskt urval med snöbollsurval användes. Tolv kvinnor i åldersspannet 35-65 år som härstammade från olika asiatiska- och afrikanska länder deltog i studien. Kvalitativ innehållsanalys användes för dataanalys. Resultat: Majoriteten av kvinnorna beskrev att de hade goda allmänna kunskaper om bröstcancer, vilket var mer än den kunskap de hade med sig från sina hemländer. Resultatet gällande attityder till mammografiundersökning och självundersökning visade på att kvinnorna ansåg det viktigt att delta i screeningprogram och att utföra självundersökning men att det inte varit så när de först kommit till Sverige. Kulturella uppfattningar som framkom i studien var att det skulle innebära rädsla för kvinnan att dra skam över sin familj, att sjukdomen i vissa kulturer upplevdes som smittsam samt det kunde upplevas lite som tabu att prata om den egna kroppen.  Slutsats: Det finns fortfarande ett kunskapsbehov kring bröstcancer bland kvinnor med icke europeisk härkomst. Ökad medvetenhet kring bröstcancer hos kvinnor, deras kunskapsnivåer om bland annat självundersökning av bröst kan användas för att uppnå målet med tidig upptäckt av sjukdomen. / Introduction: Breastcancer is the most common type of cancer among women, early detection is important for an increased survival of the desease. Variations in knowledge and education about breastcancer and attitudes towards screeningmethods seem to influate womens perceptions about symthoms and decisions to contact healthcare providers or participate in screening-programmes. Objective: To describe the knowledge about breast cancer and attitudes about mammography and self-breast-examination in women with different cultural backgrounds living in Sweden. Design: A qualitative study using interview methods. Method: The study was conducted by using semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions. A strategic selection of snowball sampling was used. Twelve women in the age range 35-65 years descended from different Asian- and African countries participated in the study. Qualitative content analysis was used for data analysis. Results: The majority of women described that they had good general knowledge about breastcancer, which was more than the knowledge they had brought from their homelands. The results regarding attitudes toward mammography screening and self-examination showed that the women considered it important to participate in screening programs and to perform self-examination but that it might not have been like that when they first came to Sweden. Cultural beliefs that emerged from the study was such that it would mean the fear of an affected woman to shame her family, that the disease in some cultures was seen as contagious, and it could seem somewhat taboo to talk about their own body. Conclusion: There is still a need for knowledge about breast cancer among women with non-European descent. Increased awareness of breast cancer in women, their levels of knowledge about including self-breast-examination can be used to achieve the goal of early detection of the disease.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-13T14:50:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013Bitstream added on 2014-08-13T18:01:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000747189.pdf: 1571276 bytes, checksum: cb0e6f84e4a758217e41fa9ef75dba98 (MD5) / Changes in the Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) expression throughout pregnancy are not well established but in pregnancy complications higher expression have been described. To evaluate expression of PTX3 in amniotic fluid (AF) throughout the last weeks of normal pregnancies and in pregnancies complicated by preterm delivery (PTD). A crosssectional study was conducted with 120 pregnant women in term and PTD. Samples of AF from all patients were obtained during cesarean section. Amniochorion membranes were collected to localization of PTX3 using immunohistochemistry. Regarding term pregnancies, PTX3 expression increased slightly throughout weeks, but these expressions are not statistically different. Among preterm pregnancies, those with preterm labor (PL) had a higher PTX3 levels than those not in labor and there was a risk increased of 1% in the occurrence of PL when there was a rise of 1 pg/mL of PTX3. Amniotic epithelial, chorionic and decidual cells presented immunoexpression of PTX3. PTX3 is a physiologic constituent of the AF, and its expression is elevated in the presence of spontaneous PL suggesting that PTX3 play a role in the innate immune response during the gestational complications that are related with an infectious/inflammatory conditions. The amniochorion membranes are sources of PTX3