Skin Cancer

News coverage focusing on skin cancer prevention and detection found lacking

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 31st, 2005

Scientists rebuked the media for its lack of news coverage on skin cancer prevention or detection and proposed strategies to increase attention.

Published research from the United States was conducted "to analyze newspaper coverage between 1979 and 2003 to understand how print coverage may affect primary and secondary skin cancer prevention in the US population."

"Content analysis of 921 skin cancer articles released by the Associated Press during the study period was reviewed," explained J.E. Stryker and colleagues, University Illinois, Urbana.

The investigators assessed the "amount of attention given to primary and secondary...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-05-31)

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