Breast cancer mortality in Barcelona following implementation of a city breast cancer-screening program

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 162-167

  Pons Vigués, Mariona ^a,b   Puigpinós, Rosa ^a,b   Cano Serral, Gemma ^b   Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc ^a,b   Borrell, Carme ^a,b,c  

^a CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^b AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Effectiveness; Mortality; Screening program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; STANDARDIZATION;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 47749149149     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: 15251500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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