A meta-analysis of public health interventions that promote repeat mammography was unable to identify which interventions were most effective.
The interventions to encourage women to regularly receive screening on a 1- or 2-year schedule include reminder systems, educational outreach, and intensive counseling.
An editorial accompanying the analysis, both of which were published online June 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, described the results as "sobering."
"Behavioral interventions only increase rates by a small to moderate amount, and there is insufficient evidence to know which approaches are most effective," write editorialists Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH, and Diana Buist, PhD, from the Cancer Control Program at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC.
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