The Angelina Jolie effect: how high celebrity profile can have a major impact on provision of cancer related services

INTRODUCTION: It is frequent for news items to lead to a short lived temporary increase in interest in a particular health related service, however it is rare for this to have a long lasting effect. In 2013, in the UK in particular, there has been unprecedented publicity in hereditary breast cancer,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Evans, D. Gareth R. (Author), Barwell, Julian (Author), Eccles, Diana M (Author), Collins, Amanda (Author), Izatt, Louise (Author), Jacobs, Chris (Author), Donaldson, Alan (Author), Brady, Angela F (Author), Cuthbert, Andrew (Author), Harrison, Rachel (Author), Thomas, Sue (Author), Howell, Anthony (Author), Miedzybrodzka, Zosia (Author), Murray, Alex (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014-09-19.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext