Screening for cervical and breast cancer: Is obesity an unrecognized barrier to preventive care?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 697-704

  Wee, Christina W ^a,b   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a,b   Davis, Roger B ^a,b   Phillips, Russell S ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0034595188     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-132-9-200005020-00003     Document Type: Article

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