Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Do celebrity endorsements matter? Observational study of BRCA gene testing and mastectomy rates after Angelina Jolie's New York Times editorial.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.) - 14 Dec 2016

Desai Sunita, Jena Anupam B

Abstract excerpt

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect on BRCA testing and mastectomy rates of a widely viewed 2013 New York Times editorial by public figure Angelina Jolie that endorsed BRCA testing and announced Jolie's decision to undergo preventive mastectomy. DESIGN: Observational study with difference-in-difference analysis. SETTING: Commercially insured US population. PARTICIPANTS: Women aged 18-64 years with claims in the...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Breast Neoplasms
Share to Genes, BRCA1
Share to Genes, BRCA2

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Genetic Testing

Share to Insurance, Health

Share to Mastectomy

Share to Time Factors

Share to United States

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 27974323
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i6357
PMCID: PMC5156611

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Do celebrity endorsements matter? Observational study of BRCA gene testing and mastectomy rates after Angelina Jolie's New York Times editorial.PMID 27974323Read ↗

Risk-reducing mastectomy rates in the US: a closer examination of the Angelina Jolie effect.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Angelina Jolie's faulty gene: newspaper coverage of a celebrity's preventive bilateral mastectomy in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.Semantic proximity Read ↗

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

Celebrity disclosures and information seeking: the case of Angelina Jolie.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Impact of Angelina Jolie (AJ)'s Story on Genetic Referral and Testing at an Academic Cancer Centre in Canada.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Angelina effect: immediate reach, grasp, and impact of going public.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Celebrity Influence and Identification: A Test of the Angelina Effect.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Angelina effect revisited: Exploring a media-related impact on public awareness.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Celebrity Health Announcements and Online Health Information Seeking: An Analysis of Angelina Jolie's Preventative Health Decision.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A Retrospective Exploration of the Impact of the 'Angelina Jolie Effect' on the Single State-Wide Familial Cancer Program in Perth, Western Australia.Semantic proximity Read ↗

College Women's Responses to a Celebrity Health Disclosure.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Angelina Jolie effect: Contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy trends in patients at increased risk of breast cancer.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.