Breast and cervix cancer screening among multiethnic women: Role of age, health, and source of care

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 418-425

  Mandelblatt, Jeanne S ^c   Gold, Karen ^c   O'Malley, Ann S ^c   Taylor, Kathryn ^a   Cagney, Kathleen ^b   Hopkins, John S ^c   Kerner, Jon ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cervical cancer, elderly; Ethnicity; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0032776661     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1998.0446     Document Type: Article

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