Approaches to breast cancer screening among primary care physicians in rural areas of Crete, Greece

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 490-496

  Trigoni, Maria ^a,e   Mahoney, Martin C ^b,c,d   Moschandreas, Joanna ^e   Tsiftsis, Dimitris ^f   Koumantakis, Eygenios ^f   Lionis, Christos ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

General practice; Knowledge; Mammography; Mass screening; Practices; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80855156832     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-010-0186-7     Document Type: Article

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