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Cancer patients' awareness about their diagnosis
— a population-based study | | Author(s) | C Nord, A Mykletun, S D Fosså |
| Journal title | Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol 25, no 4, December 2003 |
| Pages | pp 313-317 |
| Source | www.pubmed.oupjournals.org |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Diagnosis ; Recognition ; Evaluation ; Norway. |
| Annotation | A cross-sectional study population-based study of cancer patients' responses to the question, "Do you have or have you had cancer?" was carried out with the 65,330 Norwegians in the Nord Trondelag Health Survey (the HUNT-II study) performed in 1995-1997. Correctness of response was assessed, with smoking being chosen as a marker of health awareness. The database of HUNT-II was merged with the Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN() to identify each of the 2,993 participants (4%) who had an invasive cancer diagnosis. Of these, 20% denied their prior cancer diagnosis; 54% were men, who were either very young or older. More smokers than non-smokers were unaware of their prior malignancy (24% versus 20%). Disclosure of a cancer diagnosis should help the patient to develop increased health awareness. It should enable a person to report his or her former cancer diagnosis when necessary. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040311501 A |
| Classmark | CK: LK7: 4AD: 4C: 76N |
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