Do the UK public realise that colorectal cancer is a common cancer?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 227-228

  Juszczyk, D ^a   Simon, A E ^a   Waller, J ^a   Ramirez, A J ^b   Wardle, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; OVARY CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SKIN CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 78751685307     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2010.02489.x     Document Type: Letter

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