Table 1.
Baseline knowledge questions and findings on HBOC
| Questions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Correctly answered, n (%) | Incorrectly answered or “I don’t know,” n (%) | |
| 1. Most of the breast cancers are inherited | 82 (57.7%) | 60 (42.3%) |
| 2. Males will not get breast cancer | 137 (96.5%) | 5 (3.6%) |
| 3. Only females will get hereditary breast and ovarian cancer | 90 (63.3%) | 52 (36.6%) |
| 4. Those who carries the mutated gene that cause hereditary breast cancer will definitely get breast cancer | 81 (57.0%) | 61 (43.0%) |
| 5. Individuals who do not carry the mutated gene for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer may also get breast cancer | 120 (84.5%) | 22 (15.5%) |
| 6. Within a family with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, unaffected individual’s breast cancer risk is same as population’s risk | 66 (46.6%) | 76 (53.5%) |
| 7. If one’s sex and physical appearance resemble his/her family member who has hereditary breast cancer, then he/she will have higher chance to get the disease also | 58 (40.8%) | 84 (59.2%) |
| Yes, n (%) | No, n (%) | |
| 8. Have you heard of genes related to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer? | 68 (47.0%) | 74 (52.1%) |
| 9. What type of cancer confers higher risk in mutated-gene carriers for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer? (Please ✓ all the applicable ones)a | 99 out of 142 participants (69.7%) could not even circle one correct gene related to HBOC | |
aList of twenty most common cancers for participants to tick all relevant ones