Do we need to maximise the breast cancer screening awareness?: Experience with an endogamous society with high fertility

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-604

  Bener, Abdulbari ^a,b,c   El Ayoubi, Hanadi R ^c,d   Moore, Malcolm A ^e   Basha, Basma ^c   Joseph, Sharen ^c   Chouchane, Lotfi ^c  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^e UICC Asian Regional Office for Cancer Control   (Japan)

Author keywords

Awareness; Breast cancer; Qatar females; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951113457     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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