Table 3.

Responses to anxiety, relationship dynamics, and worry related questions among 37 patients who remember being told that their tumor was HPV positive

	N (%)
	Strongly disagree/disagree	Neutral	Strongly agree/agree
I FELT/FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT…
The diagnosis of cancer, when I was first diagnosed	0%	7%	93%
My tumor being HPV-positive, now that my treatment is complete	47%	36%	17%
THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT TENSION…
Between me and my partner or family members, since my doctor and I discussed the HPV status of my tumor	92%	3%	5%
	Not at all	A little/ somewhat	Very much
I FEEL WORRIED ABOUT…
Transmitting HPV to my current partner	57%	35%	8%
Transmitting HPV to other family members ^	83%	14%	3%
Transmitting HPV to future sexual partners ^	89%	0%	11%
How I became infected with HPV	38%	46%	16%
Why I became infected with HPV	38%	49%	14%
Whether I am still infected with HPV	32%	49%	19%

^{^}This excludes 2 patients who said transmission to family members was “not applicable” and 8 patients who said transmission to future sexual partners was “not applicable”