Table 1.

Risk Categories Described in Stories About Cancer Morbidity Risk, by Newspaper Source, 2003

Risk Category	Stories Overall (N = 1,665), %a	Stories in Mainstreamb Newspapers (n = 1,431), %a	Stories in Ethnicc Newspapers (n = 234), %a	P valued
Lifestyle	41.0	40.3	47.9	.03
Genetic	20.0	18.7	28.2	.001
Demographic	35.6	30.9	64.1	<.001
Medical	16.9	18.4	7.3	<.001
Environmental/occupational	19.9	21.2	12.0	<.001

^a Columns do not total 100% because some stories mention more than 1 risk category.

^b "Mainstream" was defined as the 50 highest-circulating newspapers that were accessible through the Lexis-Nexis database (n = 44).

^c "Ethnic" was defined as all English-language newspapers in the Ethnic NewsWatch database (n = 283).

^d P values were calculated by using Pearson χ² analysis.