Practice and barriers toward breast self-examination among young Malaysian women

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1173-1178

  Al Naggar, Redhwan Ahmed ^a   Al Naggar, Dhekra Hamoud ^b   Bobryshev, Yuri V ^c   Chen, Robert ^d   Assabri, Ali ^e  

^a MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b Obstetrics and Gynecology Department   (Yemen)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^e SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Barriers; Breast self examination; Malaysian women; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857945832     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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