The first national public breast cancer screening program in Saudi Arabia

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Abulkhair, Omalkhair ^a   Al Tahan, Fatina ^a   Young, Susan ^a   Musaad, Salma ^b   Jazieh, Abdul Rahman ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Kendle International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; BODY MASS; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DYSPLASIA; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST LESION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; ECTOPIC BREAST; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; NULLIPARA; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956258070     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.67078     Document Type: Article

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