Evaluation of the Netherlands breast cancer screening programme

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1203-1205

  Verbeek, A L M ^a   Broeders, M J M ^a   Fracheboud, J ^b   Otto, S J ^b   Groenewoud, J H ^b   van Ineveld, B M ^b   Hendriks, J H C L ^b   de Bruyn, A E ^b   van der Maas, P J ^b   de Koning, H J ^b   Holland, R ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer service screening; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041382831     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdg324     Document Type: Article

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