Early diagnosis of breast cancer by hair diffraction

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 969-972

  James, Veronica ^a   Corino, Gary ^b   Robertson, Terry ^c   Dutton, Nichole ^c   Halas, Danka ^c   Boyd, Alexandra ^d   Bentel, Jacqueline ^c   Papadimitriou, John ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hair; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRISSA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HAIR; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 17044390861     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.20824     Document Type: Article

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