Table 7.
Women's personal risk estimates from risk perception questionnaire: percentage frequency of answers to question, “What do you think is your lifetime risk of developing breast cancer?”
| Risk estimate | Percentage frequency
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Accepters (n=74) | Decliners (n=57) | |
| Inevitable | 32 | 10 |
| 80% | 3 | 0 |
| 1 in 2 | 27 | 19 |
| 1 in 3 | 20 | 35 |
| 1 in 4 | 10 | 17 |
| 1 in 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 in 6 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 in 8 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 in 10 | 3 | 2 |
| 1 in 12 | 0 | 4 |
| 1 in 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 in 50 | 0 | 5 |
| 1 in 100 | 1 | 0 |
Comparison of inevitable v not inevitable, P=0.001.
Mann-Whitney test for trend over all categories, P<0.005.