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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(9):617; doi:10.1093/jnci/97.9.617
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

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Celebrity Endorsements of Cancer Screening

Celebrities often promote cancer screening by relating personal anecdotes about their own diagnosis or that of a loved one. Larson et al. (p. 693) examined the extent to which 360 women and 140 men without a history of cancer had seen or heard or been influenced by celebrity endorsements of screening mammography, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, or sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. Most respondents reported they "had seen or heard a celebrity talk about" mammography (73% of women aged 40 years or older), PSA testing (63% of men aged 50 years or older), . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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