Is screening mammography safe for high-risk patients?

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 360-362

  Benson, John ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MICE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY;

EID: 33646014435     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70670-2     Document Type: Letter

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