Table 1.

Types of fraudulent or suspicious data identified in eliminated survey responses (n=1081).^a

Description	Value, n (%)
Year of birth is reported as 2020, or reported age and age calculated from reported date of birth are different by more than 1 year	250 (17.8)
Reported age is <40 years and cancer type is rare for those aged <40 years	283 (20.1)
Respondents indicate a survey source prior to dissemination of the survey from that source	820 (58.2)
Open-ended comments focus on information technology rather than answering the question asked	56 (4)
Open-ended telehealth comments are duplicates	34 (2.4)
Final open-ended suggestion responses are duplicates	107 (7.6)
Email addresses are duplicates	20 (1.4)
Time since diagnosis is <2 years, but time since treatment is 2-5 years	11 (0.8)
Time since diagnosis is ≤5 years, but time since treatment is >5 years	57 (4)
Suspicious survey time (at least 10 surveys completed in succession within 5 minutes of each other or completed between midnight and 4 AM EST)	986 (70)
Email/address is suspicious (for email: at least 10 random numbers or letters in a row, or strange punctuation or capitalization; for address: incomplete address, address of a business, address is not real, address includes quotation marks, or pattern of strange capitalization or spacing)	166 (11.8)
Name/suffix is suspicious (first and last name flipped, part of last name in first name field or vice versa, male suffix and female name, random letters or numbers in suffix field)	78 (5.5)

^aIndividuals could be counted in as many indicators as their responses suggested; thus, the n values do not add up to the total of excluded data.