Early detection of breast cancer through population-based mammographic screening in Asian women: A comparison study between screen-detected and symptomatic breast cancers

Breast Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-139

  Chuwa, Esther W L ^b   Yeo, Allen W Y ^b   Koong, Heng Nung ^a   Wong, Chow Yin ^b   Yong, Wei Sean ^a   Tan, Puay Hoon ^b   Ho, Juliana T S ^a   Wong, Jill S L ^a   Ho, Gay Hui ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asian; Breast cancer; Mammography screening

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE;

EID: 62149092816     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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