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What prompts help-seeking for cancer ‘alarm' symptoms? A primary care based survey

BACKGROUND: Encouraging prompt help-seeking for cancer symptoms can help shorten the patient interval and improve timely diagnosis. We explored factors associated with help-seeking in a primary care sample reporting ‘alarm' symptoms. METHODS: A questionnaire was mailed to 9771 adults (⩾50 years...

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Autores principales: Whitaker, K L, Smith, C Friedemann, Winstanley, K, Wardle, J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26794277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.445