Breast cancer risk perception and lifestyle behaviors among white and black women with a family history of the disease

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-308

  Spector, Denise ^a,d   Mishel, Merle ^a   Skinner, Celette Sugg ^b   DeRoo, Lisa A ^c   VanRiper, Marcia ^a   Sandler, Dale P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Family history; Lifestyle behaviors; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PEDIGREE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; WOMEN;

EID: 67651125043     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31819deab0     Document Type: Article

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