Diagnosis delay in Libyan female breast cancer

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ermiah, Eramah ^a,c   Abdalla, Fathi ^b,d   Buhmeida, Abdelbaset ^e   Larbesh, Entesar ^c   Pyrhönen, Seppo ^a   Collan, Yrjö ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c National Oncology Institute   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^d Misurata Cancer Institute   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis delay; Libyan female breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SHAME; TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIBYA; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHAME; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84865094378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-452     Document Type: Article

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