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Perceived Importance of Information Needs on Breast Cancer among Adults: a Population-Based Survey in the District of Colombo, Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Information needs of Breast Cancer (BC) and its perceived importance has not been adequately assessed in Sri Lanka. The present study aimed to assess cognitive information needs of BC among the adults. METHODS: A household survey was conducted among a representative sample (n=1500) of ov...

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Autores principales:	Kuruppu, D C, Wijeyaratne, C N, Gunawardena, Nalika, Amarasinghe, I
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30139233 http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/APJCP.2018.19.8.2247

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