Characteristics and presentation of patients with breast cancer in Rwanda

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 409-413

  Mody, Gita N ^a   Nduaguba, Afam ^b   Ntirenganya, Faustin ^c   Riviello, Robert ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

Barriers to care; Breast cancer; Cancer; Global surgery; Health care delivery; World health

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RWANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RWANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875279625     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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