Screening in the era of economic crisis: Misperceptions and misuse from a longitudinal study on Greek women undergoing benign vacuum-assisted breast biopsy

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5023-5029

  Domeyer, Philip John ^a   Sergentanis, Theodoros Nikolaos ^a   Katsari, Vasiliki ^b   Souliotis, Kyriakos ^b   Mariolis, Anargiros ^c   Zagouri, Flora ^a   Zografos, George Constantine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c Health Care Regional Administration   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast MRI; Breast self examination; Cancer screening; Mammogram; Pap smear; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VACUUM; VAGINA SMEAR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VACUUM; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84887593763     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.9.5023     Document Type: Article

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