'It don't make sense to worry too much': The experience of prostate cancer in African-Caribbean men in the UK

European Journal of Cancer Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-71

  Nanton, V ^a   Dale, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African Caribbean; Communication; Culture; Experience; Prostate cancer; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CENTRAL AMERICA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARIBBEAN REGION; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 78650395436     PISSN: 09615423     EISSN: 13652354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2009.01155.x     Document Type: Article

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