Global breast cancer mortality statistics

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 138-144

  Mettlin, Curtis ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASIA; AUSTRIA; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ITALY; MAMMOGRAPHY; POLAND; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032838318     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.49.3.138     Document Type: Review

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