The perceived ethical appropriateness of messaging on breast cancer screening cessation among older women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Messaging about breast cancer screening cessation may reduce over-screening by raising awareness of the harms of screening, but in a background of strongly positive beliefs about screening among the public, such messaging may be perceived negatively. We aimed to assess whether older women perceived it to be ethically appropriate for clinicians to share a message that encourages breast cancer screening cessation.

Methods

As part of a large national online survey experiment with women 65+ years, we presented a message (hereafter referred to as primary message) describing the rationales for stopping breast cancer screening (e.g., guideline recommendation, harms of screening) and assessed how ethical women thought it would be for doctors to share this information with

SUBMITTER: Altiery De Jesus VV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12396241 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature