Women’s Awareness of and Responses to Messages About Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment

Background: Scientists, clinicians, and other experts aim to maximize the benefits of cancer screening while minimizing its harms. Chief among these harms are overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Although available data suggest that patient awareness of these harms is low, we know little about how patients respond to information about these phenomena. Objectives: Using the case of breast cancer screening, this study assesses women’s awareness of and...