Breast cancer screening behavior in Turkish women: Relationships with health beliefs and self-esteem, body perception and hopelessness

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-54

  Çam, Olcay ^a   Gümüs, Aysun Babacan ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Body perception; Breast cancer; Hopelessness; Screening; Self esteem; Turkish women

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651184113     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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