Beliefs and interest in cancer risk in an underserved Latino cohort

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-245

  Ricker, Charité N ^a   Hiyama, Sue ^b   Fuentes, Susan ^c   Feldman, Nancy ^b   Kumar, Vasanth ^c   Uman, Gwen C ^d   Nedelcu, Raluca ^a   Blazer, Kathleen R ^a   MacDonald, Deborah J ^a   Weitzel, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c QueensCare Family Clinics   (United States)

^d Vital Research LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Disparities; Genetics; Heredity; Latinos; Underserved minorities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33847306943     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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