Understanding social obstacles to early breast cancer detection is critical to improving breast cancer outcome in low- and middle-resource countries

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4436-4439

  Anderson, Benjamin O ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS;

EID: 77957576134     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25361     Document Type: Editorial

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