Breast cancer

Breast cancer screening has been presented to women as mostly positive for decades, despite voices raising issues related to harms since its introduction. Public communications about breast cancer screening tended to use persuasive techniques aimed at maximizing uptake. Concern about the harm of overdetection is [...]

For decades, breast cancer screening has been viewed in a mostly positive light, despite voices from the beginning raising issues related to its harms. Public communications about breast cancer screening have tended to use persuasive techniques aimed at maximizing uptake. False positives were considered the [...]