Measuring Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk
Open Access
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
- Vol. 15 (10) , 1893-1898
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-05-0482
Abstract
Background: Accurate measurement of people's risk perceptions is important for numerous bodies of research and in clinical practice, but there is no consensus about the best measure.Keywords
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