Variation in blame attributions across different cancer types

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1799-1805

  Marlow, Laura A V ^a   Waller, Jo ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHLAMYDIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; KNOWLEDGE; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954462057     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1298     Document Type: Article

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