Mammographic screening and disease presentation of breast cancer patients who die of disease

Breast Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 298-303

  Spencer, Daniel B ^a   Potter, Julia E ^a   Chung, Maureen A ^b,c   Fulton, John ^d   Hebert, Walter ^b   Cady, Blake ^b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Hospital Association of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mammography; Mortality; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODE ISLAND;

EID: 3142679457     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2004.21461.x     Document Type: Article

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