What is the Color of Cancer?

Objective: To investigate the colors that evokes cancer in the patients with prostate, lung and breast cancer, and in healthy controls. Materials and Methods: A visual card in one of the 9 colors (white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, navy, black) was shown to totally 210 patients diagnos...

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Published in:Üroonkoloji bülteni 2017-03, Vol.16 (1), p.8
Main Authors: MD, Volkan Tatli, MD, Oktay Üçer, MD, Talha Müezzinoglu
Format: Article
Language:eng ; tur
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Summary:Objective: To investigate the colors that evokes cancer in the patients with prostate, lung and breast cancer, and in healthy controls. Materials and Methods: A visual card in one of the 9 colors (white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, navy, black) was shown to totally 210 patients diagnosed with lung cancer (LC), prostate cancer (PC) or breast cancer (BC) and 200 healthy participants and the question of "What is the color of cancer?" was asked to them. Disease information of the cancer patients were also recorded. Results: The mean ages of the patient and control groups were 61.54 and 20.49, respectively (p
ISSN:2147-2270
DOI:10.4274/uob.795