Detecting breast cancer in a general practice: Like finding needles in a haystack?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1003-1006

  Beattie, Andrew ^a  

^a General Practitioner   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953237411     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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