Screening practices in cancer survivors.

Introduction: Ten percent of all new cancers are diagnosed in cancer survivors and second cancers are the sixth leading cause of cancer deaths. Little is known, however, about survivors' screening practices for other cancers. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a cancer diagnosis on survivors' screening beliefs and practices compared to those without a cancer history.

Health behaviors in cancer survivors.

Purpose/objectives: To describe health behaviors of cancer survivors by cancer diagnosis and to compare them to people without a personal or family cancer history.

Design: Cross-sectional secondary data analysis.

Setting: A national, list-assisted telephone survey using random-digit dialing of U.

Cancer survivors information seeking behaviors: a comparison of survivors who do and do not seek information about cancer.

Objective: To examine the cancer information seeking behaviors and preferences of cancer survivors.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used the National Cancer Institute's 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey data to evaluate 619 cancer survivors.

Results: Two-thirds (67.