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Scarce information about breast cancer screening
- Source :
- Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2016.
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Abstract
- Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text<br />Although the public should have complete and correct information about risk/benefit ratio of breast cancer screening, public knowledge appears generally scarce and oriented to overestimate benefits, with little awareness of possible disadvantages of the screening. We evaluated any document specifically addressed to the general female public and posted on internet by Italian public health services. The presence of false positive, false positive after biopsy, false negative, interval cancer, overdiagnosis, lead-time bias, exposure to irradiation, and mortality reduction was analyzed. Of the 255 websites consulted, 136 (53.3%) had sites addressed to the female public. The most commonly reported information points were the false-positive (30.8% of sites) and radiation exposure (29.4%) rates. Only 11 documents mentioned overdiagnosis, 2 mentioned risk of false positive with biopsy, and only 1 mentioned lead-time bias. Moreover, only 15 sites (11.0%) reported quantitative data for any risk variables. Most documents about breast cancer screening published on the web for the female public contained little or no information about risk/benefit ratio and were biased in favor of screening.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Observational Study
Breast Neoplasms
overdiagnosis
Risk Assessment
03 medical and health sciences
Breast cancer screening
0302 clinical medicine
Patient Education as Topic
medicine
Humans
Mammography
030212 general & internal medicine
Overdiagnosis
Early Detection of Cancer
Gynecology
Internet
Interval cancer
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Prevention
Medicine (all)
Public health
Mortality reduction
General Medicine
Informed choice
Radiation exposure
Italy
Overdiagnosi
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Family medicine
ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING
Female
Risk assessment
business
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00257974
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....149c53a87a854f3951cee58fc0ee0fe7