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We aren’t sure exactly what this adds to the recent conversations, but Gallup, the market research firm, has just provided results of a poll that asked 1,102 upstanding American adults for their opinions about cancer screening.
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It is fascinating how misinformation can drive the way we react to health care issues — and just how much misinformation we manage to propagate on a regular basis.
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A paper in the July issue of Psychological Science addresses the influence of men’s perceptions on their willingness to be tested for prostate cancer (at least in one part of Germany).
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As Leah wrote in a comment on this blog just the other day, “Yes, the ‘D-word’ is still taboo. Death is UNAMERICAN.” The comment stimulated the thought that our preconceptions have significant impact on how we think about risk, diagnosis, and treatment of prostate cancer — and yet there is really very little good research on [...]
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… and we suspect that a similar study, if carried out in the USA, would come to similar conclusions.
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