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Today Show host, Lisa Wilkinson, undergoing a mammogram live on the Channel 9’s Today Show. PR IMAGE /AAP

Celebrity breast screening: all that glitters is not gold

Gemma Jacklyn, University of Sydney and Alexandra Barratt, University of Sydney

Celebrities have taken to “live” mammograms on television, undergoing this usually very private procedure in a rather public way. This includes Today show co-host Lisa Wilkinson, and news presenter, Georgie…
There’s a deep uncertainty about both the benefits and the harms of breast cancer screening as it is practiced today. Tips Times/Flickr

Growing uncertainty about breast cancer screening

Alexandra Barratt, University of Sydney and Gemma Jacklyn, University of Sydney

When they were introduced over 20 years ago, national breast screening programs were a milestone in public health. They were based on evidence from randomised trials that screening saved lives. But there…

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