Informing Women About Overdetection in Breast Cancer Screening: Two-Year Outcomes From a Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supporting well-informed decisions about breast cancer screening requires communicating that inconsequential disease may be detected, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Having previously shown that telling women about overdetection improved informed choice, we investigated effects on screening knowledge and participation over 2 years.

Methods

We conducted a community-based, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial in Australia. Participants were women aged 48-50 years, without personal or strong family history of breast cancer, who had not undergone mammography in the past 2 years. We randomly assigned 879 women to receive the intervention decision aid (evidence-based information on overdetection, breast cancer mortality reduction, and false-positives)

SUBMITTER: Hersch J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8562961 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature