Table 5.

Knowledge questions of familial breast cancer

	Items	True (T)/ False (F)
1	There is more than one gene that can increase the risk of breast cancer	T
2	With hereditary breast cancer, breast cancer develops generally more likely at a younger age compared to non-hereditary breast cancer	T
3	A father can pass down a genetic predisposition for breast cancer to his daughter	T
4	Even if a woman doesn't have a genetic predisposition for breast cancer, her children still can get the genetic predisposition from their grandmother (their mother's mother)	F
5	Regular breast cancer screening can prevent the development of breast cancer	F
6	A DNA test can determine whether one will or will not certainly develop breast cancer	F
7	Genetic inheritance is the main cause of breast cancer in most patients with breast cancer	F
8	All women who have a genetic predisposition for breast cancer will get cancer	F
9	With ageing, the residual risk of getting breast cancer becomes smaller	T
10	The risk of getting breast cancer within the next ten years is equal to the total lifetime risk of getting breast cancer	F