Ending cervical cancer screening: attitudes and beliefs from ethnically diverse older women

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40.e1-40.e7

  Sawaya, George F ^a   Iwaoka Scott, A Yuri ^a   Kim, Sue ^a   Wong, Sabrina T ^a,b   Huang, Alison J ^a   Washington, A Eugene ^a   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cervix cancer screening; older women; screening cessation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 58049156937     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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