Breast cancer awareness among middle class urban women - A community-based study from Mumbai, India

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6249-6254

  Gadgil, Anita ^a   Sauvaget, Catherine ^b   Roy, Nobhojit ^a   Frie, Kirstin Grosse ^b   Chakraborty, Anuradha ^a   Lucas, Eric ^b   Bantwal, Kanchan ^a   Haldar, Indrani ^a   Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Awareness; Behaviour; Breast cancer; India; Questionnaire survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84944446658     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2015.16.15.6249     Document Type: Article

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