"Cutting" on cancer: Attitudes about cancer spread and surgery among primary care patients in the USA

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1669-1673

  James, Aimee ^a   Daley, Christine M ^b   Greiner, K A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Community health centers; Cultural beliefs; Health disparities; United States

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

DECISION MAKING; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 81055157646     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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