. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Genet. 2015 Sep 14;89(3):392–398. doi: 10.1111/cge.12653

Table 3.

Screening behavior and beliefs of participants

Item	Cancer type, no. (%)^*				p
Item	CRC	UGI	EC^†	OC^†	p
Believe screening is somewhat or very important	32/33 (97)	18/33 (55)	6/7 (86)	6/7 (86)	0.001
Told by someone to be screened	NA	7/34 (21)	7/7 (100)	4/7 (57)	<0.001
Last screening test occurred recently^‡	31/33 (94)	19/34 (56)	6/7 (86)	5/7 (71)	0.004
Test was specifically for routine screening^††	28/34 (82)	10/21 (48)	6/6 (100)	4/6 (75)	0.053

CRC, colorectal cancer; UGI, upper gastrointestinal cancer; EC, endometrial cancer; OC, ovarian cancer.

^†

n = 7 (responses analyzed only from patients eligible for the screening).

^‡

For colonoscopy, within the 2 years prior to taking the survey; for UGI endoscopy, within the last 3 years; for endometrial biopsy, within the last year; for transvaginal ultrasound, within the last year.

^††

Denominator is the number of participants who underwent the test This group also included participants who underwent testing owing to “increased risk of cancer in my family”.