Awareness of breast cancer in women of an urban resettlement colony

Indian Journal of Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 149-153

  Somdatta, P ^a   Baridalyne, N ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Awareness; Breast cancer; India; Urban resettlement colony

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149269429     PISSN: 0019509X     EISSN: 19984774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-509X.44662     Document Type: Article

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