Diagnosis of small sized invasive breast cancer by an Australian mammography screening service: Surrogate end-points for mortality reduction

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 415-418

  Rickard, Mary ^a   Donnellan, Michael ^a  

^a BreastScreen NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mammography screening; Mortality reduction; Screen detected small invasive breast cancers

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0031777935     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1998.tb04789.x     Document Type: Article

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