Gender Comparison of Diagnosis Risk Knowledge.

The height of the bars are the proportion of men compared to women who knew of breast cancer or ovarian cancer “Not at All,” “Fairly Well,” or “Very Well,” respectively. Male participants presented a strong indication of breast cancer knowledge, as evidenced by the “Fairly Well” and “Very Well” categories. Conversely, male participants had virtually no knowledge of ovarian cancer. A majority of female participants also responded that they knew of ovarian cancer “Not at All,”however most of the female participants knew of ovarian and breast cancer “Fairly Well.” Both men and women did not know of breast cancer of ovarian cancer “Very Well.”