– About one-third of the women in the country have not taken livmorhalsprøva as recommended, says doctor Bente Prytz Mjølstad .
Livmorhalsprøva can uncover celleforandringar before it evolves into cancer. Women between 25 and 69 years are being encouraged to check themselves before.
What is the reason for the low testdeltakinga is a matter of speculation, says Mjølstad.
Has provided the stage for a year
– When you come in to the doctor to take the stage, so have you actually just want to disappear, ” says Iris Buset Leirvik about it to take livmorhalsprøva.
Anxiously expect the 28-year-old to come in to the gynecologist at the Clinic Brought. In a year, she has subject to take celleprøva.
When she finally got the courage and ordered the time, wanted her not to go to the doctor.
– It is not an area you want to share with who any time. The doctor is a man, and I feel it will be easier to go to a lady for just this.
Leirvik think also that the busy everyday life and long reiseveg can influence the testdeltakinga for many women.
– It is not surely everyone has access to kvinneleg family doctor or gynecologist where they live.
Although she has traveled closer to 25 kilometres by bus to take livmorhalsprøva with the gynecologist in Brought.
Unstable fastlegeordningar
We know that some women are uncomfortable with going to the gynaecological investigation, says Mjølstad.
In addition to being a family doctor is she associate professor in general medicine at NTNU in Trondheim. Mjølstad is einig with Leirvik in the busy everyday life can be among the reasons to get checking out. At the same time think she is that bad fastlegeordning also plays a role.
TRUST IS IMPORTANT: – It is important to trust the doctor and feel confident that the survey are made on a ordentleg way, ” says Bente Prytz Mjølstad.
Photo: Karl Joergen Marthinsen / Karl Joergen Marthinsen
This is a problem all over the country, but particularly has the county of Sogn and Fjordane and Finnmark have been among the counties that have had the greatest replacement of fastlegar. It is clear that this can increase the uncertainty among women.
Finnmark come dårlegast out
Cervical cancer is one of the few krefttypar where you can do much to førebygge illness, ” says gynecologist and leader in Livmorhalsprogrammet Ameli Tropé.
According to the Cancer registry had 355 women cervical cancer in 2018. Tropé says that half of the krefttilfella as diagnostiserast in Norway is among women who do not have a check up as recommended.
Tropé says that women in the former county of Sogn and Fjordane, and Finnmark county checking in somewhat less degree than women in the rest of the country.
– In the course of the last three years, 68,4 per cent of the women in Sogn og Fjordane between 25 and 69 years took the stage, she says, and continues:
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COLLECTION: With this brush scraped it of the cells on the livmortappen. Afterwards dyppar a brush in a glass so that the cells bevarast up to the survey.
Photo: Ina Christin Løvseth / nrk
because of The korona encourages Norwegian institute of public health that a man with legetimar not hastar. Want a still to book an appointment to celleprøvetaking, one must contact their local fastlegekontor.
