Evidence-based radiography for person-centered care in cancer diagnostics

My name is Ann-Sofi Sjöqvist, and I am a registered radiographer, MSc and doctoral student. I work in Malmö at the Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology Skåne university Hospital and have been working with MRI since 2004. Between 2007 and 2011 I worked at Hvidovre Hospital in Denmark at the DRCMR department and there is where my research interest awoke. In Denmark I enrolled for a master program in MRI, radiography at Karolinska Institute (at start in collaboration with the University of Trondheim, Norway) and finished my project about an MRI-sequence optimization comparison for patients with rectal cancer.

The doctoral project is a mixed-method study about experiences in women with a hereditary risk of breast cancer undergoing annual surveillance with MRI breast in Sweden. The study questions and aims are are: i) to explore women´s perception of being included and participating in surveillance with MRI and the perception of caring during the examination, ii) to explore women´s lived experiences being part of yearly surveillance with MRI, iii) to investigate health-related quality of life, anxiety and psychosocial consequences of surveillance with MRI and iv) investigate adherence to surveillance versus which women who opt for risk-reducing mastectomy, a project in collaboration with another research team (SHE-BREMS). 

This project started in 2020 and is a multi-centered study in Sweden. Data collection has been retrieved and selected from different departments in Sweden performing MRI breast in women with a hereditary risk of breast cancer.

The results of this study can give us a key of how to implement person-centred care throughout the chain of healthcare professions in surveillance for women with a hereditary risk of breast cancer.

Members of project group:

• Anetta Bolejko, Registered Radiographer, Associate professor, Diagnostic Radiology Lund University, Department of Medical Imaging, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
• Sophia Zackrisson, Radiologist, Professor, Diagnostic Radiology Lund University, Department of Medical Imaging, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
• Jenny Gårdling, Registered radiographer, Program director of Radiography program Lund University, PhD, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• Ann-Sofi Sjöqvist, Registered radiographer, Doctoral student, Diagnostic Radiology Lund University, Department of Medical Imaging, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.