Opinion. The most recent breast cancer screening controversy about whether mammographic screening benefits women at any age: Nonsense and nonscience

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-26

  Kopans, Daniel B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MORTALITY; PUBLISHING; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEWSPAPERS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0037208531     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.180.1.1800021     Document Type: Note

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