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Barriers and Facilitators to Informed Decision-Making About Prostate Cancer Screening Among Black Men

Nicholas Shungu and Katherine R. Sterba
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2021, 34 (5) 925-936; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.05.210149
Nicholas Shungu
From the Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (NS); Department of Public Health Sciences and Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (KRS).
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Katherine R. Sterba
From the Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (NS); Department of Public Health Sciences and Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (KRS).
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