The EUROMED CANCER network: State-of-art of cancer screening programmes in non-EU Mediterranean countries

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 83-89

  Giordano, Livia ^a   Bisanti, Luigi ^a   Salamina, Giuseppe ^b   Ancelle Park, Rosemary ^c   Sancho Garnier, Hélène ^d   Espinas, Josep ^b   Berling, Christine ^e   Rennert, Gad ^f   Castagno, Roberta ^a   Dotti, Marta ^a   Jaramillo, Lina ^a   Segnan, Nereo ^a  

^a Piedmont Centre for Cancer Prevention   (Italy)

^b Department of Prevention ASL TO1 ^*  (Spain)

^c French Ministry of Research   (France)

^d JDB Foundation for Cancer Prevention   (France)

^e Cancer Institute Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus Grand Paris   (France)

^f National Cancer Control Centre   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; MORTALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84962026528     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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