Adjuvant therapy, not mammographic screening, accounts for most of the observed breast cancer specific mortality reductions in Australian women since the national screening program began in 1991

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 949-955

  Burton, Robert C ^a   Bell, Robin J ^a   Thiagarajah, Geetha ^a   Stevenson, Christopher ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; Breast; Cancer; Mammographic; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84856227182     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1794-6     Document Type: Article

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