False-positive mammographic screening: Factors influencing re-attendance over a decade of screening

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-33

  Fitzpatrick, P ^a,b   Fleming, P ^b   O'Neill, S ^b   Kiernan, D ^b   Mooney, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b National Cancer Screening Service   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79955641220     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2010.010104     Document Type: Article

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