Behaviors Used by Men to Protect Themselves against Prostate Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 78-86

  Kunkel, Elisabeth J S ^a   Meyer, Birgit ^a   Daskalakis, Constantine ^a   Cocroft, James ^a   Jennings Dozier, Kathleen ^b   Myers, Ronald E ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642518286     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-010-3     Document Type: Article

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