To screen or not to screen older women for breast cancer: A new twist on an old question or will we ever invest in getting the answers?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2991-2992

  Mandelblatt, Jeanne ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547692687     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.11.9560     Document Type: Editorial

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