Increasing incidence of and declining mortality from breast carcinoma: Trends in Malmo, Sweden, 1961-1992

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-74

  Garne, Jens Peter ^a   Aspegren, Knut ^a   Balldin, Göran ^a   Ranstam, Jonas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

adjuvant treatment; breast carcinoma; epidemiology; incidence; mammographic screening; mortality; tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031016158     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970101)79:1<69::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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