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Awareness of breast cancer among adolescent girls in Colombo, Sri Lanka: a school based study

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women worldwide. Although programmes promoting breast cancer awareness are being carried out throughout Sri Lanka, few have targeted school students. We conducted this study to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding breast cancer...

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Autores principales:	Ranasinghe, Hasanthika M, Ranasinghe, Nilakshika, Rodrigo, Chaturaka, Seneviratne, Rohini De A, Rajapakse, Senaka
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2013
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906911/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24359310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1209

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