Making sense of cancer risk calculators on the web

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-235

  Levy, Andrea Gurmankin ^a,b   Sonnad, Seema S ^c   Kurichi, Jibby E ^c   Sherman, Melani ^c   Armstrong, Katrina ^c,d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer risk; Internet; Web risk calculators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATOR; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; WEB BROWSER;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39249084876     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0484-x     Document Type: Article

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