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Table 2 Focus Group participant willingness to use skin application of drug, N (%)

From: Awareness of preventive medication among women at high risk for breast cancer and their willingness to consider transdermal or oral tamoxifen: a focus group study

Which would you prefer for breast cancer prevention if you were offered a choice between a pill and a gel?

aPerceived below average and average risk

Perceived above average risk

Unsure of personal risk

All participants

Gel

11 (34 %)

15 (47 %)

3 (9 %)

29 (91 %)

Pill

0 (0 %)

1 (3 %)

0 (0 %)

1 (3 %)

Unsure

1 (3 %)

0 (0 %)

1 (3 %)

2 (6 %)

Total

12

16

4

32

  1. aOnly two women perceived themselves as below average in risk of developing breast cancer and were therefore combined with those who perceived themselves as average to simply the table