Cancer screening among older women in a culturally insular community

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 649-656

  Albert, Steven M ^a   Harlap, Susan ^b   Caplan, Lee ^c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System; Cancer screening; Culture; Gerontology; Jews; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEWS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4444344319     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.06.016     Document Type: Article

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