Attitudes and beliefs toward lung cancer screening among US veterans

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Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1783-1787

  Tanner, Nichole T ^a,c   Egede, Leonard E ^a,b,c   Shamblin, Clayton ^a   Gebregziabher, Mulugeta ^b   Silvestri, Gerard A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Charleston Research Company   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84890253528     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-0056     Document Type: Article

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