How Well Informed Do Patients Feel about Their Breast Cancer Surgery Options? Findings from a Nationwide Survey of Women after Lumpectomy and/or Mastectomy  Sunny Mitchell, MD, Jennifer Gass, MD, FACS, Michael Hanna, PhD  Journal of the American College of Surgeons  Volume 226, Issue 2, Pages 134-146.e3 (February 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.10.022 Copyright © 2017 The Authors Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 The flow of respondents through recruiting, screening, and completion of the survey. As seen toward the bottom of the figure, 10 respondents from the mastectomy survey and 3 participants from the lumpectomy survey were later purged from the database. They had checked all or nearly all answer options to the screening questions about medical conditions, types of cancer, and breast cancer treatments. Presumably these were “professional” survey respondents who knew that if they did not check the right answer on those screening questions, then they would be terminated and not receive the monetary incentive. Indeed, 5 of those 13 were all from New York so might have been the same person using multiple emails, and another 5 of 13 were from New Jersey so might have also been just one person. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2018 226, 134-146.e3DOI: (10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.10.022) Copyright © 2017 The Authors Terms and Conditions