One risk of breast cancer screening: the false-positive

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One risk of breast cancer screening: the false-positive

Posted Jul 22nd 2007 3:02PM by Patricia Mayville-Cox
Filed under: All Cancers

Danish researchers, in a new study in Value in Health authored by Dr. John Brodersen, studied the effect of false-positive cancer tests, including false-positive results on mammograms.

Brodersen and colleagues found that false-positives caused significant psychological harm in "six psychosocial dimensions; anxiety, behavioral impact, sense of dejection, impact on sleep, breast examination and sexuality."

Brodersen says, "Women should be better informed both before breast cancer screening and during the screening process. This should include a discussion about the implications of a false-positive result, as well as the benefits of early detection of breast cancer."

I couldn't agree more.

Tags: anxiety, cancer screening, CancerScreening, false positive, FalsePositive

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1. Compare this post to the ones about MRI mammograms in this blog.

Posted at 1:40PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Emmanuel M

2. Its really scary. I guess its better to find out you dont have cancer, then that you did and it was missed, but its getting really creepy. Here is another article about it http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/517614/Health?c_id=wom=kg-jlt kate from the womens health desk at thenewsroom.com

Posted at 1:33PM on Jul 28th 2007 by Kate



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