Breast cancer screening practices among Cambodian women in Houston, TX.
BACKGROUND: Faced with Western medicine and a health care system that is unfamiliar, Cambodian women experience barriers to breast cancer prevention activities and thus are seldom reached through current breast cancer education and prevention activities. This study examined the knowledge, attitudes,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cancer Education Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 221 - 226 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
1996 Winter
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