Evaluating the effectiveness of using standard mammogram form to predict breast cancer risk: Case-control study

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1074-1081

  Ding, Jane ^a   Warren, Ruth ^a   Warsi, Iqbal ^a   Day, Nick ^b   Thompson, Deborah ^b   Brady, Michael ^c   Tromans, Christopher ^c   Highnam, Ralph ^d   Easton, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Highnam Associates Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 52649131427     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2634     Document Type: Article

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