ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
Social network effects of nonlifesaving early-stage breast cancer detection on mammography rates.
Article in American journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Patient preferences for breast cancer screening: a systematic review update to inform recommendations by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of conflicting versus consistent messaging on older women's support for breast cancer screening cessation.Patient education and counseling · 2025Trial
- Effect of Messaging on Support for Breast Cancer Screening Cessation Among Older US Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Spillover After Mammography Guideline Change: Evidence From State-Level Trends.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Patient Navigation Can Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes among African American Women in Chicago: Insights from a Modeling Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Article
- Clustering of chronic hepatitis B screening intentions in social networks of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Awareness of treatment history in family and friends, and mental health care seeking propensity.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe estimated the effect of anecdotes of early-stage, screen-detected cancer for which screening was not lifesaving on the demand for mammography.
methodsWe constructed an agent-based model of mammography decisions, in which 10 000 agents that represent women aged 40 to 100 years were linked together on a social network, which was parameterized with a survey of 716 women conducted through the RAND American Life Panel. Our model represents a population in equilibrium, with demographics reflecting the current US population based on the most recent available census data.
resultsThe aggregate effect of women learning about 1 category of cancers-those that would be detected but would not be lethal in the absence of screening-was a 13.8 percentage point increase in annual screening rates.
conclusionsAnecdotes of detection of early-stage cancers relayed through social networks may substantially increase demand for a screening test even when the detection through screening was nonlifesaving.
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