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Breast Cancer
Media portrayal of breast cancer risk analyzed
September 15th, 2005
Investigators analyzed the media portrayal of breast cancer risk. In a recent study, researchers in Canada conducted a study "to describe, compare, and analyze how the risk of breast cancer is framed in newspapers directed towards an ethnic minority population (Jewish) with higher risk of inherited breast cancer compared with newspaper coverage for the general population (Anglo-Canadian) without this risk. This investigation utilized a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) approach." "The design emphasized a content analysis conducted on ethnically specific and non-ethnic newspaper articles. It is noteworthy that the 'Jewish' newspapers devote...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-15)
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