Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 73-78 , February 2010

Breast cancer screening among Asian immigrant women in Canada

  • Zhuoyu Sun

      Affiliations

    • Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
    • Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
    • ,
  • Hui Xiong

      Affiliations

    • Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
    • ,
  • Anne Kearney

      Affiliations

    • Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
    • ,
  • Jin Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Tianjin Cancer Hospital, Tianjin, China
    • Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
    • ,
  • Wei Liu

      Affiliations

    • Hebei Medical University, Hebei, China
    • ,
  • Guowei Huang

      Affiliations

    • Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
    • ,
  • Peizhong Peter Wang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
    • Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3V6. Tel.: +1 709 777 8571; fax: +1 709 777 7382.
    web address

,Accepted 2 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2009.12.001

Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 73-78 , February 2010

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