Colon cancer screening practices in New York city, 2003: Results of a large random-digit dialed telephone survey

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1075-1082

  Thorpe, Lorna E ^a,g   Mostashari, Farzad ^a   Hajat, Anjum ^a   Nash, Denis ^b   Karpati, Adam ^a   Weber, Thomas ^c   Winawer, Sidney ^d   Neugut, Alfred I ^e   Awad, Amir ^f   Zevallos, Mabel ^f   Remy, Prospere ^f   Frieden, Thomas ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Division of Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical preventive services; Colorectal cancer; Prevalence; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCREENING TEST; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK CITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844487437     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21274     Document Type: Article

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