Breast cancer in Iran: A review of 903 case records

Public Health

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-145

  Harirchi, I ^a   Ebrahimi, M ^a   Zamani, N ^a   Jarvandi, S ^a   Montazeri, A ^a  

^a Iranian Centre for Breast Cancer (ICBC)   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidemiology; Iran; Pathology

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH CARE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

IRAN;

EID: 0034029991     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ph.1900623     Document Type: Article

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