Rot Irena, Ogah Imhokhai, Wassersug Richard J
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
J Cancer Educ. 2012 Jun;27(3):559-65. doi: 10.1007/s13187-012-0344-1.
We explored, via an online questionnaire, knowledge of breast and reproductive system cancers in patients and non-patients who access the internet for information on these diseases. We compared that knowledge to the attention the diseases have received in medical research and on the Internet. Data were collected from 690 respondents (37 % male, 63 % female) about their knowledge of prevalence, lethality, treatments and side effects of testicular, prostate, breast, uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers. Most males, but only half of the female participants, were patients themselves. Although participants showed better knowledge of cancers specific to their own sex, both sexes felt familiar with breast cancer and less aware of other cancers. Women were as aware as men of side effects of treatments for male reproductive cancers. Sex differences in awareness appear to reflect different attitudes towards illness, bias toward females as caregivers, and the disproportionate media attention given to breast cancer.
我们通过在线问卷，对那些通过互联网获取乳腺癌和生殖系统癌症信息的患者及非患者，就这些癌症的相关知识展开了调查。我们将这些知识与这些疾病在医学研究及互联网上所受到的关注进行了比较。从690名受访者（37%为男性，63%为女性）处收集了有关睾丸癌、前列腺癌、乳腺癌、子宫癌、宫颈癌和卵巢癌的患病率、致死率、治疗方法及副作用等方面的知识。大多数男性受访者本身就是患者，但女性参与者中只有一半是患者。尽管参与者对自身性别所特有的癌症了解更多，但两性都对乳腺癌较为熟悉，而对其他癌症了解较少。女性对男性生殖系统癌症治疗副作用的了解程度与男性相当。认知上的性别差异似乎反映出对疾病的不同态度、对女性作为照料者的偏见，以及媒体对乳腺癌的过度关注。
