Symptom awareness and cancer prevention: Exploratory findings from an at-risk population

Health Education

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 332-345

  Eadie, Douglas ^a   MacAskill, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communities; Elderly people; Health education; Patients; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749131776     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654280810884205     Document Type: Article

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