Misconceptions and mammography use among Filipino- and Korean-American women

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 377-384

  Maxwell, Annette E ^a   Bastani, Roshan ^a   Warda, Umme S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer Risk Factors; Survey; Traditional Medicine

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032150950     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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