Comparing cancer screening estimates: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue , 2018, Pages 94-100

  Sauer, Ann Goding ^a   Liu, Benmei ^b   Siegel, Rebecca L ^a   Jemal, Ahmedin ^a   Fedewa, Stacey A ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer prevention; Cancer screening; Cervical cancer; Colorectal cancer; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLACK PERSON; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; YOUNG ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85032731466     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.10.019     Document Type: Article

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