Breast Cancer

Who and what are heard about the mammography screening controversy?

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 28th, 2003

Who and what are heard in the press about the mammography screening controversy'

"The objective of this project was to analyze newspaper coverage of the January 2000 meta-analysis by Gotzsche and Olsen, "is screening for breast cancer with mammography justified'" [Lancet 355 (2000) 129]," scientists writing in the journal Patient Education and Counseling report.

"A content analysis was performed on a comprehensive set of newspaper clippings from the UK during the 2 weeks following publication of the Lancet article," wrote M. Holmes-Rovner and colleagues, Michigan State University.

"The original authors were most quoted in...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-10-28)

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