Cancer Fear: Facilitator and Deterrent to Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 400-405

  Vrinten, Charlotte ^a   Waller, Jo ^a   Von Wagner, Christian ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER FEAR; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT WORRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; THINKING; UNITED KINGDOM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84922689696     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: 15387755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0967     Document Type: Article

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