Oral cancer knowledge and experience: A survey of South Carolina Medical Students in 2002

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 136-142

  Reed, Susan G ^a   Duffy, Nadia Grijebovskaya ^a   Walters, K Christian ^a   Day, Terry A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CAVITY; ORAL BIOPSY; PALPATION; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TOBACCO USE CESSATION;

EID: 24144454609     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15430154jce2003_6     Document Type: Article

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