Knowledge, attitudes and practice of breast cancer screening among female health workers in a Nigerian urban city

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Akhigbe, Adenike O ^a   Omuemu, Vivian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NIGERIA; NURSE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SCIENTIST; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67651043682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-203     Document Type: Article

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