Screening for prostate cancer: What do general practitioners think?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 1044, 1997, Pages 178-182

  Morris, Jenny ^a   McNoe, Bronwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ADULT; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031584216     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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