Willingness to undergo colorectal cancer screening in first-degree relatives of hospitalized patients with colorectal cancer

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-38

  Delgado Plasencia, Luciano ^a   Lopez Tomassetti Fernandez E ^a   Hernandez Morales A ^a   Torres Monzon E ^a   Gonzalez Hermoso F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; FRIEND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; PROGENY; RELATIVE; SEX; SIBLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 67049167726     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2009.008062     Document Type: Article

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