Screening for breast cancer - Finding a place between common sense and the evidence base

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 354-355

  Dent, D M ^a   Panieri, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNET; IRELAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PROGNOSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 2642560321     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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