Cancer screening practices among primary care physicians serving Chinese Americans in San Francisco

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 148-155

  Lee, Marion M ^a,c   Lee, Florence ^a   Stewart, Susan ^b   McPhee, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CHINA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032946981     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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