Acculturation and its relationship to smoking and breast self-examination frequency in African American women.

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Published in J Behav Med on April 01, 2005

Authors

Josephine S Guevarra1, Naa Oyo A Kwate, Tricia S Tang, Heiddis B Valdimarsdottir, Harold P Freeman, Dana H Bovbjerg

Author Affiliations

1: Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.

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