Few people are doing it, so why should I? Motivating men to seek cancer screening

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

In Germany, several national health campaigns promote cancer screening by announcing that only one in five German men gets screened. This is supposed to motivate men to have an examination. But a new study finds that this well-meaning message has the exact opposite effect: it makes men less likely to choose to get screened.

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