Have screening harms become newsworthy? News coverage of prostate and colorectal cancer screening since the 2008 USPSTF recommendation changes

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1242-1251

  Elstad, Emily A ^a,b   Sheridan, Stacey L ^b,c   Lee, Joseph G L ^a   Rini, Christine ^a,b   Earp, Jo Anne ^a,b   Brewer, Noel T ^a,b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Colonoscopy; Media; Newspaper article; Prostate specific antigen test

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

COLONOSCOPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

COLONOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84939890721     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: 15733521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-014-9572-7     Document Type: Article

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