Offering informed choice about breast screening

Forbes, Lindsay J.L., Ramirez, Amanda-Jane, Archer, Mary, Cooke, Julie, Coulter, Angela, Dewar, John A., Entwistle, Vikki, Felton, Roger, Kirby, Jessica, Jones, Alison, and others. (2014) Offering informed choice about breast screening. Journal of Medical Screening, 21 (4). pp. 194-200. ISSN 0969-1413. E-ISSN 1475-5793. (doi:10.1177/0969141314555350) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:53842)

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Abstract

Over the last few years, there has been growing international concern about the risk of overdiagnosis in breast screening and about how to communicate this to women. There has also been an increasing policy drive to provide people with information to enable them to make an informed choice about screening. In response to this, a novel approach to developing the information about cancer screening has been adopted in England. This approach has integrated the perspectives of people eligible for screening, and experts in public engagement, informed choice, and communicating risk, as well as experts in screening. New information based on this approach has been provided to women invited for breast screening from September 2013. The new information explicitly sets out the choice to be made, and provides much more detail than previous information about overdiagnosis, the balance of benefits and harms, and the scientific uncertainties. The novel approach has also been adopted to develop new information for the bowel and cervical screening programmes in England, and could provide a model for communicating about cancer screening in other countries.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1177/0969141314555350
Uncontrolled keywords:	Breast neoplasms; Choice behaviour; Mass screening; Health information; Consumer involvement
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology
Divisions:	Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Depositing User:	Lindsay Forbes
Date Deposited:	25 Jan 2016 10:18 UTC
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 10:41 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/53842 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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