The communications revolution and cancer control

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 828-835

  Viswanath, K ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LUNG CANCER; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; ANIMAL; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM;

ANIMALS; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 25844454520     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1718     Document Type: Review

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