Clinical breast examination: What can be recommended for its use to detect breast cancer in countries with limited resources?

Breast Journal

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Albert, Ute Susann ^a   Schulz, Klaus Dieter ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical breast examination (CBE); Detection; Mortality; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SCREENING; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM EXAMINATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NIPPLE; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; RANDOMIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALPATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037686703     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.9.s2.10.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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