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. 2022 Jul 18;16(1):43–56. doi: 10.1007/s40271-022-00589-5

Table 4.

Direct and estimated uptake of hypothetical cancer screening tests

Overall Class 1: find my cancer (43%) Class 2: sensitivity/specificity trade-off (41%) Class 3: wary of screening; particularly false results (16%)
Direct screening preferences
 Screening A (50 types of cancer tested, 55.2% sensitivity, 99.3% specificity, 11% cancer type unknown) 1223 (72%) 580 (79%) 578 (83%) 65 (24%)
 No screening 477 (28%) 151 (21%) 115 (17%) 211 (76%)
Class 1: find my cancer (43%)
% [95% CI]
Class 2: sensitivity/specificity trade-off (41%)
% [95% CI]
Class 3: wary of screening; particularly false results (16%)
% [95% CI]
Estimated uptake
 Hypothetical MCED test (50 types of cancer tested, 55.2% sensitivity, 99.3% specificity, 10.5% cancer type unknown) 62.0% [52.2–71.8] 71.9% [67.1–76.7] 52.4% [40.5–64.4]
 Hypothetical single-cancer blood test screening (1 type of cancer tested, 88% sensitivity, 87% specificity, 0% cancer type unknown) 38.0% [28.2–47.8] 28.1% [23.3–32.9] 47.6% [35.6–59.5]

CI confidence interval, MCED multi-cancer early detection