Minimal social network effects evident in cancer screening behavior

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3045-3052

  Keating, Nancy L ^a,b   O'Malley, A James ^b   Murabito, Joanne M ^c,d   Smith, Kirsten P ^b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^b,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer screening; mammography; prostate specific antigen; social networks

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SIBLING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79959621392     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25849     Document Type: Article

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