Most consumers want predictive tests to learn if a disease is in their future
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
Consumers may place a high value on information to predict their future health, and may be willing to pay out of pocket to get it. In a national survey, roughly 76 percent of people indicated that they would take a hypothetical predictive test to find out if they will later develop Alzheimer's disease, breast or prostate cancer or arthritis.