Delay in diagnosis of breast cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-96

  Tartter, Paul Ian ^a,c   Pace, David ^a   Frost, Mark ^a   Bernstein, Jonine L ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033512878     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199901000-00012     Document Type: Article

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