title: College students' knowledge of risk and screening recommendations for breast, cervical, and testicular cancers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is a gap in the literature regarding the knowledge of college students about breast, cervical, and testicular cancers.
  
  
  METHODS
  I surveyed 3362 college students were surveyed about their knowledge of risk factors and screening recommendations for these 3 cancers during the 2002-2003 school year at a large public university in the Northeast.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students knew approximately 50% of the information about risk factors and screening recommendations for these 3 cancers. CONCLUSIONS. Based on these results, college students appear to have limited knowledge about breast, cervical, and testicular cancers and need education about them.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. cdaley@knmc.edu
authors.forename: Christine Makosky
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Daley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009511:New England; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*