Screening for a cancer: A sad chapter in today's epidemiology

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 647-653

  Miettinen, Olli S ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL;

HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE;

EID: 52949109191     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-008-9284-9     Document Type: Note

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