Mammographic screening programmes in Europe: Organization, coverage and participation

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 72-82

  Giordano, Livia ^a   Karsa, Lawrence Von ^b   Tomatis, Mariano ^a   Majek, Ondrej ^c   Wolf, Chris De ^d   Lancucki, Lesz ^e   Hofvind, Solveig ^f   Nystrom, Lennarth ^g   Segnan, Nereo ^a   Ponti, Antonio ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Fribourg Swiss Federation of Breast Cancer Screening   (Switzerland)

^e NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^f Cancer Registry of Norway ^*  (Norway)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84868140364     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2012.012085     Document Type: Article

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