title: Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours concerning cancer screening in Canada.
abstract: The Advisory Committee on Cancer Control funded a one-day workshop to discuss the surveillance of knowledge, attitudes/beliefs and behaviours concerning early cancer detection in Canada. Participants considered the need for such national surveillance and related methodological issues. Some exploratory work has been conducted in this regard. Results were presented from an inventory of existing survey questions and a summary of established cancer screening guidelines. There was overall agreement on the utility of collecting details of early cancer detection behaviours and their determinants. Explicitly, participants identified a need for site-specific information, highlighting cancers of the prostate and colon/rectum, as well as recognizing a need for qualitative information regarding the determinants that enable early cancer detection behaviours.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Bureau, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lipskie
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Whylie
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: F D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Ashbury
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015397:Program Evaluation