Breast cancer screening practices among hong kong chinese women

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-65

  Kwok, Cannas ^a   Fong, Daniel Y T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening practices; Chinese women; Culturally sensitive instrument

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; CHINESE BREAST CANCER SCREENING BELIEFS QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARTTIME EMPLOYMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84890553580     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31827f0a9d     Document Type: Article

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