Racial differences in timeliness of follow-up after abnormal screening mammography

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1395-1402

  Chang, Sophia W ^a,b   Kerlikowske, Karla ^a   Nápoles Springer, Anna ^a   Posner, Samuel F ^a   Sickles, Edward A ^a   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast neoplasms diagnosis; ethnic groups; follow up studies; mammography prevention and control; time factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029819444     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961001)78:7<1395::AID-CNCR5>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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