Women’s Views on Multifactorial Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Risk-Stratified Screening: A Population-Based Survey from Four Provinces in Canada
, Jennifer D. Brooks 4, Michel Dorval 1,5,6, Jocelyne Chiquette 1,7,8, Laurence Eloy 9, Annie Turgeon 1, Laurence Lambert-Côté 1, Jean-Sébastien Paquette 8, Emmanuelle Lévesque 10, Julie Hagan 10, Meghan J. Walker 4,11, Julie Lapointe 1, Gratien Dalpé 10, Palmira Granados Granados Moreno 10, Kristina Blackmore 11, Michael Wolfson 12, Yann Joly 10, Mireille Broeders 13,14, Bartha M. Knoppers 10, Jacques Simard 1,15 and add
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Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The study is a population-based survey from Canada, for evaluating the attitute of women about risk-stratified screening mammogram program.
It is interesting subject, and the result and presentation is very clear.
I have some minor conscerns.
First, authors include the province as a factor for analysis.
I wonder why you thought the province would be a factor how a woman could answer the quastions.
Are there any differences between privnces, eg. cultural difference, socioeconimic difference or health care system?
Second, it would be better if the authors woud add a paragraph about the health system.
The result showed that women are willing to increase the frequency of screening mammogram, but have some resistance to reduce it. I guess the health care system could be a very important base of the resul. Therefore, who would pay the fee for screening mammogram, the goverment, private insurance, or individual person, should be explained.
As a minor problem, please check the typo in Panel C, the last column. ' Not to be offeref-'
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is a well written paper describing the risk stratification assessment for breast cancer screening in Canadian women from 4 provinces.
1) Introduction can include initially what is the current guidelines for breast cancer screening
2) Have the authors considered full adherence biases ? If so how would you address this bias
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