Reasons why patients reject digital rectal examination when screening for prostate cancer

Archivos Espanoles de Urologia

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 759-765

  Romero, Frederico Ramalho ^a,c,d   Santos Romero, Karen Richter P ^b   Brenny Filho, Thadeu ^c   Pilati, Roberto ^c   Kulysz, David ^c   De Oliveira Jr , Fernando César ^a  

^a Núcleo de Atenção à Saúde Instituto Curitiba de Saúde ICS   (Brazil)

^b Fundação Escola Do Ministério Público Do Estado Do Paraná   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Evangélico de Curitiba e Hospital São Vicente de Curitiba   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Belief; Prostate cancer; Questionnaire; Refusal; Screening; Shame

Indexed keywords

EID: 49149094611     PISSN: 00040614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S0004-06142008000600019     Document Type: Article

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