Fear and loathing in the Caribbean: Three studies of fear and cancer screening in Brooklyn's immigrant Caribbean subpopulations

Infectious Agents and Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Consedine, Nathan S ^a,b   Adjei, Brenda A ^a,b   Horton, David ^b   Joe, Andrew K ^c   Borrell, Luisa N ^c   Ramirez, Paul Michael ^a   Ungar, Tracey ^b   McKiernan, James M ^c   Jacobson, Judith S ^c   Magai, Carol ^a,b   Neugut, Alfred I ^c  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intercultural Institute on Human Development and Aging   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANXIETY; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60349090221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17509378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-9378-4-S1-S14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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