Interest in, willingness-to-pay for and willingness-to-recommend genetic testing for prostate cancer among affected men after radical prostatectomy

Autor: Marcel Mayer, Katharina Selig, Kathleen Herkommer, Andreas Dinkel, Jürgen E. Gschwend, Frank Tüttelmann
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Familial Cancer. 18:221-230
ISSN: 1573-7292
1389-9600
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-018-0101-7
Popis: Knowledge about interest in genetic testing and willingness-to-pay for a genetic test among men affected from prostate cancer (PCa) is limited. This study aimed to gain insight into men's attitudes in genetic testing for PCa. 4699 men with PCa from the German multicenter prospective database "Familial Prostate Cancer" were included. Interest in, Willingness-to-pay for and Willingness-to-recommend a genetic test for PCa were quantified. Associations with several sociodemographic and psychosocial variables were evaluated by logistic regression. 76.8% of the affected men with a median follow-up of 12.9 years were interested in a genetic test for PCa. Newly identified variables significantly associated with interest were having sons (OR 1.66, p
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