Early evaluation of an organised mammography screening program in Greece 2004-2009

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-380

  Simou, Effie ^a   Tsimitselis, Dimitrios ^a   Tsopanlioti, Maria ^a   Anastasakis, Ioannis ^a   Papatheodorou, Dionisios ^a   Kourlaba, Georgia ^a   Gerasimos, Panagos ^a   Maniadakis, Nikos ^b  

^a General Oncology Hospital Agioi Anargyroi   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Greece; Mammography screening programme

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79960614201     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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