Breast cancer screening: Can we talk?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 206-207

  Miller, Redonda G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0035723685     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2001.10119.x     Document Type: Editorial

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