The launch of Cancer Research UK's 'Reduce the Risk' campaign: Baseline measurements of public awareness of cancer risk factors in 2004

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 827-836

  Redeker, Claudia ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a   Wilder, Deborah ^a   Hiom, Sara ^b   Miles, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention; Health education; Public awareness; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DIETARY INTAKE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SUN EXPOSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SUNBURN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449112862     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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