Australian women's awareness of breast cancer symptoms and responses to potential symptoms

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 945-958

  Jones, Sandra C ^a   Gregory, Parri ^a   Nehill, Caroline ^b   Barrie, Lance ^a   Luxford, Karen ^b   Nelson, Anne ^b   Zorbas, Helen ^b   Iverson, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Breast cancer; Help seeking; Perceptions; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISCHARGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 77955658053     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9522-9     Document Type: Article

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