Winning the Cancer Fight: A Look at the Future

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 859-865

  Eyre, Harmon J ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Early detection; Future; Prevention; Quality treatment; Research

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71849116104     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2009.07.003     Document Type: Review

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