Breast cancer screening: The effect of self selection for screening on comparisons of randomised controlled trials

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 16-18

  Richardson, Ann ^a   Wells, J Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Randomised controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031398874     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096914139700400106     Document Type: Article

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