Published on in Vol 11, No 3 (2009): Jul-Sep

What Is My Cancer Risk? How Internet-Based Cancer Risk Assessment Tools Communicate Individualized Risk Estimates to the Public: Content Analysis

What Is My Cancer Risk? How Internet-Based Cancer Risk Assessment Tools Communicate Individualized Risk Estimates to the Public: Content Analysis

What Is My Cancer Risk? How Internet-Based Cancer Risk Assessment Tools Communicate Individualized Risk Estimates to the Public: Content Analysis

Erika A. Waters   1, 2 * , PhD MPH ;   Helen W. Sullivan   2 * , PhD MPH ;   Wendy Nelson   3 * , PhD ;   Bradford W. Hesse   2 * , PhD

1 Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, United States

2 Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States

3 Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States

*all authors contributed equally

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  • Erika A. Waters, PhD MPH
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