Are breast self-exams or clinical exams effective for screening breast cancer?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 803-804

  Gaskie, Sean ^a   Nashelsky, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Family Physicians Inquiries Network   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CHINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PALPATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PALPATION;

EID: 24644486916     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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