Breast awareness: A shift in the paradigm of breast self-examination

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1042-1043

  Bevers, Therese B ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 74049090529     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2009.0068     Document Type: Note

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