Doctors Take on a Notorious E-Mail

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For years, a message circulating on the Internet has urged women to demand a special blood test as a way to screen themselves for ovarian cancer. Doctors have dismissed the e-mail, saying the recommended test isn’t reliable. The original author has even softened her stance, telling women the issue is far more complex than she first thought.

But the message, with its poignant sense of urgency and impassioned pleas for women to spread the word to their friends, has a power all its own.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...orious-e-mail/