Awareness Levels about Breast Cancer Risk Factors, Early Warning Signs, and Screening and Therapeutic Approaches among Iranian Adult Women: A large Population Based Study Using Latent Class Analysis

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tazhibi, Mahdi ^a   Feizi, Awat ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; IRAN; IRANIAN (CITIZEN); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; MASTALGIA; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; OBESITY; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAN; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84930793410     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/306352     Document Type: Article

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