Assessing and increasing breast cancer screeningThis work was supported by a grant to Dr. Brewer from the American Cancer Society (MSRG-06-259-01-CPPB).

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 483-484

  Brewer, Noel T ^a   Reiter, Paul L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 55049096682     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.07.018     Document Type: Note

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