Table 2.

Cancer Risk Perception Among 1160 Women by Ethnic Group, San Francisco, California, 2003–2005

	Percentage
Risk Perception	Total	White	African American	Latina	Asian
Cervical cancer
No risk	30.1	19.0	21.2	19.3	49.6
Very low risk	28.4	39.9	30.3	20.1	23.2
Low risk	25.0	27.4	24.2	31.8	19.2
Moderate	12.1	11.0	18.2	17.6	7.2
High or very high risk	4.4	3.0	6.1	11.3	0.8
Breast cancer
No risk	20.7	2.4	7.3	10.0	48.1
Very low risk	21.9	26.8	24.2	20.1	18.0
Low risk	29.2	35.1	26.7	33.0	22.8
Moderate	19.1	27.4	27.9	19.3	8.3
High or very high risk	9.1	8.3	13.9	17.6	2.8
Colon cancer
No risk	20.9	4.2	10.3	7.6	47.6
Very low risk	20.9	27.7	20.6	18.1	16.9
Low risk	31.1	42.8	34.6	28.1	21.4
Moderate	19.4	21.7	23.6	26.5	11.6
High or very high risk	7.7	3.6	10.9	19.7	2.5