Reply: Effect of populationbased screening on breast cancer mortality

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9823, 2012, Pages 1296-1297

  Thornton, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NOTE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84859338112     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60550-9     Document Type: Letter

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