Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 5 , Pages 597-603 , May 2007

Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Canadian Women Living With Physical Disabilities

  • Nicole S. Cooper, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • ,
  • Karen K. Yoshida, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Karen K. Yoshida, PhD, Dept of Physical Therapy and Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, 500 University Ave, 8th Fl, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V7, Canada

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 Supported by the Social Science Humanities Research Council (project no. 816-97-0042).

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)00112-8

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.02.014

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 5 , Pages 597-603 , May 2007

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