Breast cancer advocacy: Changing perceptions

Salud Publica de Mexico

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Koon, Ksenia Peters ^a   Soldak, Tanya ^b   Gralow, Julie R ^a  

^a SEATTLE CANCER CARE ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b Resource and Policy Exchange Inc   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Patient advocacy; United States; World health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 77952576428     PISSN: 00363634     EISSN: 16067916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-36342009000800024     Document Type: Article

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