Memorial Anxiety Scale for Prostate Cancer (MAX-PC)

The Memorial Anxiety Scale for Prostate Cancer (MAX-PC) is an 18-item questionnaire with a 4-point Likert-type scale asking how frequently certain “comments made by men about prostate cancer” were true of the respondent (Roth et al., 2003). Each item is scored from 0 to 4 with anchors ranging from “Not at all” to “Often.” The scale can be scored in its entirety by summing all the items or summary scores can be grouped into Prostate Cancer Anxiety (11 items), PSA Anxiety (3 items), or Fear of Reoccurrence (4 items).