Citation

Rosenbaum L. New Engl. J. Med. 2014; 370(7): 595-597.

Affiliation

Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMp1314638

PMID

24521105

Abstract

Despite knowing that heart disease kills more women each year than all cancers combined, most women fear breast cancer far more - and their health-related behavior reflects this difference. If our sense of risk is less about fact than about feeling, how do we adjust it?

Language: en