title: "Misfearing"--culture, identity, and our perceptions of health risks.
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?
authors: From the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
authors: Lisa
authors: L
authors: Rosenbaum
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000592:standards; D010379:Peer Group; D012306:Risk; D012737:Sex Factors; D016387:Women's Health