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The Public's Enthusiasm for Cancer Screening
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To the Editor: Dr Schwartz and colleagues1 found that 73% of respondents would prefer to receive a total-body CT scan to $1000 in cash. While these results may be accurate for this particular sample, I doubt that 3 of 4 people would choose a total-body CT scan over $1000 if they had first been involved in a discussion of cancer screening. Such a high rate of choosing the CT scan over the cash is more likely the effect of the survey on the participants than a native preference.
Unfortunately, if the population is in fact becoming more amenable to cancer screening and consumer-directed marketing of screening procedures, this will only expand the population's interest.
Grant Fankhauser
gfankhauser@kumc.edu
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Kansas City
1. Schwartz LM, Woloshin S, Fowler FJ, Welch HG. Enthusiasm for cancer screening in the United States. JAMA. 2004;291:71-78.
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