Prostate Cancer
University of British Columbia Publishes Research in Prostate Cancer
Published in Cancer Weekly, December 6th, 2011
2011 DEC 6 -- "In this article we describe the connections between prostate cancer support groups (PCSGs) and men's health literacy and consumer orientation to health care services. The study findings are drawn from participant observations conducted at 16 PCSGs in British Columbia, Canada and 54 individual interviews that focused on men's experiences of attending group meetings," scientists in Vancouver, Canada report.
"Men's communication and interactions at PCSGs provide important insights for how men talk about and conceptualize health and illness. For example, biomedical language often predominated at group meetings, and men used numbers and measures...
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