Giske Ursin

  • Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Keck School of Medicine
Office: (323) 865-0423

Expertise Summary

Expert in kidney transplantation, dialysis, and organ donor issues

Expertise

  • hormones and cancer
  • epidemiology of breast cancer, in particular the role of hormonal factors
  • epidemoilogy of other female reproductive cancers
  • estrogen-progestin replacement therapyand breast cancer risk
  • oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk
  • oral contraceptives and adenocarcinomaof the cervix
  • mammograms and the prevention ofbreast cancer
  • mammographic density
  • nutritional epidemiology

Languages

  • Akan

Additional Information

    Dr. Ursin is currently Director of the Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway. She is also Professor at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.