Colorectal cancer screening knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among veterans: Does literacy make a difference?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2617-2622

  Dolan, Nancy C ^a   Ferreira, M Rosario ^a   Davis, Terry C ^a   Fitzgibbon, Marian L ^a   Rademaker, Alfred ^a   Liu, Dachao ^a   Schmitt, Brian P ^a   Gorby, Nicolle ^a   Wolf, Michael ^a   Bennett, Charles L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOLDIER; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VETERAN;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VETERANS;

EID: 4344662728     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.10.149     Document Type: Article

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