Breast cancer detection method among 20- to 49-year-old patients at a community based cancer center: 1990-2008

Breast Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 257-260

  Malmgren, Judith ^a,b   Atwood, Mary ^c   Kaplan, Henry ^c,d  

^a HealthStat Consulting   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

age 20 39; age factors; breast cancer; breast self examination; mammography

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861185501     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2012.01231.x     Document Type: Article

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