"Heat in their intestine": Colorectal cancer prevention beliefs among older Chinese Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 248-254

  Choe, John H ^a,b,e   Tu, Shin Ping ^a   Lim, Jeanette M ^c   Burke, Nancy J ^d   Acorda, Elizabeth ^b   Taylor, Vicky M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c Prog Appropriate Technol Hlth   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese American; Colorectal cancer; Prevention; Qualitative interview; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EXERCISE; FECES ANALYSIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; WASHINGTON;

EID: 33744985559     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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