The effect of conflicting versus consistent messaging on older women's support for breast cancer screening cessation.

Objective: Breast cancer over-screening is common in older women. Messaging about breast cancer screening cessation may reduce over-screening but the broader informational environment often emphasizes screening continuation. We aimed to examine the effect of receiving consistent messages about breast cancer screening cessation versus conflicting messages (i.

Effect of Messaging on Support for Breast Cancer Screening Cessation Among Older US Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Many older women are screened for breast cancer beyond guideline-recommended thresholds. Messaging holds promise to reduce overscreening.

Objective: To investigate the effect of a message on older women's support for and intentions of stopping breast cancer screening.

Older women's perspectives on the ethics of persuasion in doctor-patient communication.

Background: Public health campaigns have often used persuasive techniques to promote healthy behaviors but the use of persuasion by doctors is controversial. We sought to examine older women's perspectives.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 community-dwelling older women from the Baltimore metropolitan area.

U.S. women's perceived importance of the harms and benefits of mammograms and associations with screening ambivalence: Results from a national survey.

The American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Task Force recently recommended that women initiate routine breast cancer screening at older ages (45 and 50, respectively) than previously recommended, and both organizations emphasize the importance of weighing the harms of mammograms against the benefits in making informed decisions.