What do web users know about skin self-examination and melanoma symptoms?

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3051-3056

  Kaminska Winciorek, Grazyna ^a   Gajda, Maksymilian ^b   Wydmanski, Jerzy ^c   Tukiendorf, Andrzej ^d  

^a Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment   (Poland)

^b Clinical Oncology Ward Starkiewicz Specialised Hospital   (Poland)

^c Department of Conventional and Intraoperative Radiotherapy   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

ABCD rule; EFG rule; Melanoma awareness; Skin self examination; Symptoms, pink lesion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLAND; SELF EXAMINATION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; SELF-EXAMINATION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928605561     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2015.16.7.3051     Document Type: Article

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