The background review for the USPSTF recommendation on screening for breast cancer [2]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 537-538

  DeFrank, Jessica T ^a   Brewer, Noel T ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; ANXIETY; BREAST TUMOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; RISK REDUCTION;

ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77952978300     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-152-8-201004200-00197     Document Type: Letter

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