Histological confirmation of breast cancer registration and self-reporting in England and Wales: A cohort study within the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1910-1916

  Fourkala, E O ^a   Gentry Maharaj, A ^a   Burnell, M ^a   Ryan, A ^a   Manchanda, R ^a   Dawnay, A ^a   Jacobs, I ^a   Widschwendter, M ^a   Menon, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cancer registry; self reporting; UKCTOCS

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SELF REPORT; WALES;

EID: 84862013937     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.155     Document Type: Article

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