Potential Benefits & Risks of Mammograms

front.gif (50k)About this Web Site: Breast cancer is a commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Mammograms are one way to detect breast cancer. This Website provides up to date information about the potential benefits and risks of screening mammograms according to a woman’s age. Prior to placing this Web site on the Internet, its content was reviewed by medical researchers and by breast cancer advocates for completeness, clarity and bias. Staff at the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control reviewed and approved the content of the program for linkage to their Internet sites.

Research Study: This Website is also part of a scientific study being conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. Researchers at the university have developed the information on this site and would like your help evaluating whether the information provided about mammograms helps women make the personal decision whether to have or not have a mammogram.

Here’s how to participate: First read the 21 questions and answers in the section "Potential Benefits and Risks of Mammograms." Then complete and submit the questionnaire that follows. The questionnaire includes 20 questions about your impressions of the information you have just read. Personal comments are appreciated and can be included after reading the section "Potential Benefits and Risks of Mammograms" or after completion of the questionnaire.

If you have questions: Your participation in this study would be greatly appreciated. You may, of course, refuse to answer any of the questions. All information you give us will be treated in a confidential manner. If you have any further questions about the study, please feel free to contact us via e-mail through the COMMENTS section below. If you have general comments or concerns about participating you may contact the Committee on Human Research by calling (415) 476-1814.

We hope that the material presented will help you with your own decision-making about mammograms. We greatly appreciate your participation in this study as your responses will help us improve the presentation of this type of information on the Internet. Thank you very much for your help.


For our records of who is visiting our site we would like to know the first three digits of your ZIP Code if you live in the U.S. and your sex.

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Copyright 1997 Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.
Written and designed by Karla Kerlikowske, M.D., John Barclay, M.S., Deborah Grady, M.D., and Virginia Ernster, Ph.D., Department of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
Supported in part by National Cancer Institute - funded Breast Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant CA58207
Posted 06/26/97
Last Updated 10/01/05

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