People's willingness to accept overdetection in cancer screening: population survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the level of overdetection people would find acceptable in screening for breast, prostate, and bowel cancer and whether acceptability is influenced by the magnitude of the benefit from screening and the cancer specific harms from overdetection.

Design

Online survey. Women were presented with scenarios on breast and bowel cancer, men with scenarios on prostate and bowel cancer. For each particular cancer, we presented epidemiological information and described the treatment and its consequences. Secondly, we presented two different scenarios of benefit: one indicating a 10% reduction in cancer specific mortality and the second indicating a 50% reduction.

Setting

Online survey of the population in the United Kingdom.

Participants

Respondents

SUBMITTER: Van den Bruel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4356995 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature