Breast cancer in low and middle income countries: How can guidelines best be disseminated and implemented?

Breast Care

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-8

  Anderson, Benjamin O ^a,b   Tsu, Vivien D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 40549087924     PISSN: 16613791     EISSN: 16613805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000116365     Document Type: Editorial

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