Americans' knowledge of cancer risk and survival

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 170-177

  Breslow, Rosalind A ^a   Sorkin, John D ^b   Frey, Carolin M ^a   Kessler, Larry G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CARCINOMA; DIET; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031105389     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1996.0136     Document Type: Article

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