Increasing prevalence of breast cancer among saudi patients attending a tertiary referral hospital: A retrospective epidemiologic study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-243

  Al Rikabi, Ammar ^a   Husain, Sufia ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; GYNECOMASTIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRICHOADENOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866464416     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2012.53.239     Document Type: Article

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