The Impact of Obesity on Gynecologic Cancer Screening: An Integrative Literature Review

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 344-356

  Aldrich, Tess ^a   Hackley, Barbara ^a  

^a APRN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Mammogram; Obesity; Papanicolaou test; Screening

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COUNSELING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OBESITY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIGMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ETHNOLOGY; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RELATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTILIZATION; VAGINA SMEAR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST;

EID: 77953999470     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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