Tumor size and detection in breast cancer: Self-examination and clinical breast examination are at their limit

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 224-228

  Güth, Uwe ^a   Huang, Dorothy Jane ^a   Huber, Marco ^a   Schötzau, Andreas ^b   Wruk, Daniela ^a   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a   Wight, Edward ^a   Zanetti Dällenbach, Rosanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Schotzau and Simmen Institute for Biomathematics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Diagnostic imaging; Mammography; Sonography; Tumor detection method; Tumor size; Tumor stage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 52949138672     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: 15251500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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