BMJ  2004;328 (17 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7432.0-b

Internet misinforms about breast cancer screening

The websites of 24 professional advocacy groups and governmental organisations fail to provide information on the major harms of mammographic screening—overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and what they do tell the public is severely biased. Jørgensen and Gøtzsche (p 148) analysed 27 websites, 13 from advocacy groups, 11 from governmental institutions, and three from consumer organisations. The consumer sites were much more balanced and comprehensive, but the others did not reflect recent findings, were severely biased in favour of screening, and had poor quality of information. The consumer sites were not clear about conflict of interest, and few websites lived up to accepted standards for informed consent.

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