Women's Awareness and Perceived Importance of the Harms and Benefits of Mammography Screening: Results From a 2016 National Survey

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Sep 1;177(9):1381-1382. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.2247.

Authors

Jiani Yu¹, Rebekah H Nagler², Erika Franklin Fowler³, Karla Kerlikowske^{4

5}, Sarah E Gollust¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
² School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
³ Government Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco.

Abstract

This survey study examines how women in the general US population perceive the benefits and harms of mammography screening.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Awareness*
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Early Detection of Cancer*
Female
Humans
Mammography / psychology*
Mass Screening / psychology
Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data*
Surveys and Questionnaires*
United States

Grants and funding

K12 HD055887/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States