Twenty years of breast cancer in Iran: Downstaging without a formal screening program

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-97

  Harirchi, I ^a   Kolahdoozan, S ^b   Karbakhsh, M ^a   Chegini, N ^a   Mohseni, S M ^a   Montazeri, A ^c   Momtahen, A J ^a   Kashefi, A ^a   Ebrahimi, M ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^d Iranian Center for Breast Cancer   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Iran; Staging; Trend

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 78650321805     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdq303     Document Type: Article

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