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. 2021 Aug 24;10:e70003. doi: 10.7554/eLife.70003

Table 1. Survey questions.

Cancer risk perception and knowledge
 Cancer is most often caused by a person’s behavior or lifestyle
 It seems like everything causes cancer
 I'd rather not know my chance of getting cancer
 There’s not much you can do to lower your chances of getting cancer
 There are so many recommendations about cancer prevention, it’s hard to know which ones to follow
 When I think about cancer, I automatically think about death
 How likely are you to get cancer in your lifetime compared to others your age?
Physician communication behavior – In the past 12 months, how often did your PCP …
 Give you the chance to ask all health-related questions
 Give you the attention you needed to your feelings/emotions
 Involve you in the decisions about your health care as much as you wanted
 Make sure you understood the things you needed to do to take care of your health
 Explain things in a way you could understand
 Spend enough time with you
 Help you deal with feelings of uncertainty about your health or health care