Giske Ursin
- Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Keck School of Medicine
Expertise Summary
Expert in cancer epidemiology.
Expertise
- hormones and cancer
- epidemiology of breast cancer, in particular the role of hormonal factors
- epidemiology 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
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.