Breast cancer awareness month: Still awaiting screening facts

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7780, 2010, Pages 955-

  Baum, Michael ^a   Thornton, Hazel ^b   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Nordic Cochrane Centre ^*

^c Nordic Cochrane Centre   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78049511208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c6152     Document Type: Letter

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