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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2009 Mar;28(2):201–209. doi: 10.1037/a0013608

Table 3.

Pre- and post-treatment risk probabilities for participants in all treatment scenario conditions (%)

Pre-treatment and post-treatment risks of developing the target illness
Net reduction in cancer risk
Control (C) Mixed gain (MXG and MXG+S) Multiple gain (MG and MG+S) Multiple loss (ML and ML+S)

Target risk Harmful side effect Target risk Beneficial side effect Target risk Harmful side effect A Harmful side effect B
25 to 10 23 to 4 2 to 6 19 to 8 6 to 2 23 to 4 1 to 3 1 to 3 15
44 to 29 42 to 23 2 to 6 38 to 27 6 to 2 42 to 23 1 to 3 1 to 3 15