Screening for breast cancer in India - Is it an appropriate strategy?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 100, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 1270-1271

  Moss, Sue ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; INDIA; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LIFE STYLE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52449108677     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djn303     Document Type: Editorial

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