Older women, mammography, and mortality from breast cancer

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 174-175

  Nattinger, Ann Butler ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033959468     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(99)00421-0     Document Type: Editorial

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