Using cancer registry data for recruitment of sexual minority women: Successes and limitations

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1289-1297

  Boehmer, Ulrike ^a   Clark, Melissa ^b   Glickman, Mark ^a   Timm, Alison ^a   Sullivan, Mairead ^a   Bradford, Judy ^c   Bowen, Deborah J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL FEMALE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MINORITY; SEXUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77954274200     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2009.1744     Document Type: Article

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