Knowledge about prostate cancer and screening among men attending Kibogora Level Two Teaching Hospital.
Introduction: Globally, prostate cancer ranks as one of the primary causes of cancer-related mortality for men. Prostate cancer death rates in sub-Saharan Africa are 2.7 times higher than the global norm. Delayed detection of the disease is one of the factors that contributes to this high mortality....
| Publicado en: | Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 80 - 86 |
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Pappin Communications
2026
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