Breast cancer screening practices and awareness in women admitted to a tertiary care hospital of Lahore, Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 418-421

  Maqsood, Bilal ^a   Zeeshan, Malik Muhammad ^a   Rehman, Fatima ^a   Aslam, Farah ^a   Zafar, Ayesha ^a   Syed, Birra ^a   Qadeer, Khazina ^a   Ajmal, Saad ^a   Imam, Sardar Zakariya ^a  

^a FMH   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PAKISTAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN;

EID: 66949181175     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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