Risk of breast cancer, health beliefs and screening behaviour among Turkish academic women and housewives

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 817-822

  Yilmaz, Meryem ^a   Guler, Güngör ^b   Bekar, Mine ^a   Güler, Nuran ^b  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Gail model; Risk assessment; Screening methods; Turkish academics housewives

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958791370     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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