An audit of screening for familial breast cancer before 50 years in the South Thames Region - Have we got it right?

Familial Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-34

  Murday, V ^b,d,e   Pears, R ^a,b,c   Ball, J ^a   Eeles, R ^c   Hodgson, S ^b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Breast cancer; Breast self examination; Family cancer clinics; Family history; Risk assessment; Screening; Sister cohort data

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER FAMILY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL AUDIT; ONCOGENE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SELF EXAMINATION; TUMOR BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST TUMOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 3142747141     PISSN: 13899600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:FAME.0000026818.34049.84     Document Type: Article

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