Cancer Screening Fear Is Fueled By Lack Of Information Says Research Review Covering Nearly 6,000 Women
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 07:36
in Psychology & Sociology
Fear plays a major role in whether women decide to go for cancer screening or not. But healthcare providers underestimate how much women need to know and wrongly assume that they will ask for information if they want it. Researchers reviewed 19 studies (1994-2008) that explored the attitudes of 5,991 women from 14 to their 80s to breast and cervical cancer screening. Figures from the UK and USA show that there is a big gap between the number of women invited for screening and the number who actually attend.