Health Practices of Male Department of Defense Health Care Beneficiaries: A Follow-Up on Prostate Cancer Screening in the National Capital Area

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 992-996

  Boyles, Gerald ^a   Moore, Angelo Dewitt ^b   Edwards, Quannetta T ^c  

^a Naval Hospital Guam   (Guam)

^b CMR 402   (Guam)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 0346847690     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.12.992     Document Type: Article

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