Do celebrity cancer diagnoses promote primary cancer prevention?

Media coverage and public reaction to a celebrity cancer diagnosis.

BACKGROUND Celebrity diagnoses can have important effects on public behaviour. UK television celebrity Jade Goody died from cervical cancer in 2009. We investigated the impact of her illness on media coverage of cervical cancer prevention, health information seeking behaviour and cervical screening coverage. METHODS National UK newspaper articles containing the words 'Jade Goody' and 'cancer'...

Impact of Australian celebrity diagnoses on prostate cancer screening.

Epidemiology and Characteristics of Extra-ovarian Conditions Mimicking Ovarian Cancer: A 4-Year Assay Among Iranian Women

Introduction: Involving approximately 4% of malignancies in women, ovarian cancer remains one of the most fatal cancers. However, it is important to consider conditions which are not primary ovarian diseases, but mimic their behaviors. In the present study, the epidemiological characteristics of extra-ovarian conditions mimicking ovarian masses are evaluated. Meth...

Preliminary data on the lived experience of having multiple primary cancer diagnoses.

Approximately one in two Canadians will develop some form of cancer, and some will live long enough to be diagnosed with multiple primary cancers. There is some indication that multiple primary cancer diagnoses negatively impact survivors' mental and physical status, and quality of life. Existing research studies do not fully capture the complexity of what it is like to have multiple primary ca...

Iranian Celebrities on the Internet

Celebrities have gained considerable influence in the last one hundred years or so, but the advent of so-called Web 2.0 technologies has given celebrity culture a new momentum. We are living in a world in which celebrities are striving to curve their place in every niche and hence we have to become more media literate in order to avoid being exploited by celebrity media and culture. We have to ...