Chinese peoples' perceptions of colorectal cancer screening: A New Zealand perspective

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1331, 2011, Pages

  Bong, Genevieve ^a   McCool, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; ASIAN; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCCULT BLOOD; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79953671357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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