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Cancer awareness among adolescents in Britain: A cross-sectional study
Kyle, Richard G. Forbat, Liz Hubbard, Gill
Kyle, Richard G.
Forbat, Liz
Hubbard, Gill
Abstract
Background: Little is known about adolescents’ cancer awareness and help-seeking behaviour in Britain. This study assessed adolescents’: awareness of cancer symptoms, common cancers, and the relationship between cancer and age; anticipated delay and perceived barriers to seeking medical advice; and examined variation by age, gender, ethnicity and whether individuals knew someone with cancer
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Date
2012
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Journal article
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BMC Public Health
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12
Issue
580
Page Range
1-11
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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Open
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© 2012 Kyle et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.