Primary care physicians' cancer screening recommendation practices and perceptions of cancer risk of Asian Americans

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1999-2004

  Kwon, Harry T ^a   Ma, Grace X ^b   Gold, Robert S ^a   Atkinson, Nancy L ^a   Wang, Min Qi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Cancer; Health disparities; Primary care physician

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880424988     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.3.1999     Document Type: Article

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