Barriers to Endoscopic Colorectal Cancer Screening: Are Women Different from Men?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 341-349

  Farraye, Francis A ^a   Wong, Mei ^a   Hurwitz, Shelley ^a   Puleo, Elaine ^a   Emmons, Karen ^a   Wallace, Michael B ^a   Fletcher, Robert H ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 1442276969     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.04045.x     Document Type: Article

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