The effect of breast cancer awareness month on internet search activity - a comparison with awareness campaigns for lung and prostate cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Glynn, Ronan W ^a   Kelly, John C ^a   Coffey, Norma ^a   Sweeney, Karl J ^a   Kerin, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; LUNG CANCER; ONLINE SYSTEM; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; SEARCH ENGINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PERIODICITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PERIODICITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053900329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-442     Document Type: Article

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