Changes in Risk Tolerance for Ovarian Cancer Prevention Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior to COVID-19, little was known about how risks associated with such a pandemic would compete with and influence patient decision making regarding cancer risk reducing medical decision making. We investigated how the pandemic affected preferences for medical risk-reducing strategies among women at elevated risk of breast or ovarian cancer.

Methods

We conducted a discrete choice experiment. Women about to undergo genetic testing and counseling at 2 medical centers participated. Enrollment occurred between 2019 and 2022, allowing us to investigate changes in preferences from before the pandemic to after the pandemic. Women chose from permuted scenarios that specified type of surgery, age of menopause, quality of menopausal symptoms, and risk of ovarian cancer, h

SUBMITTER: Egleston BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11881031 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature