Table 4.

Participant perceptions of relatives’ cancer risks and recommended screening, by type of relative

Belief	No. of participants with the belief (%)
	For first-degree relatives	For second- and third- degree relatives
Relatives have a higher risk than other people their age to develop colorectal cancer	20 (61) †	12 (40) ‡
Relatives should undergo colonoscopy every 1-2 years or less	20 (61) †	11 (38) ††
Relatives may be at increased risk for Lynch syndrome*	19 (58) †	11 (37) ‡

^*Correctly understood test results as uninformative negative or variant of unknown significance.

^†n = 33 responses.

^‡n = 30 responses.

^††n = 29 responses.