Breast cancer screening and the changing population pyramid of Japan

Breast Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 172-176

  Uchida, Ken ^a,b   Ohashi, Hitoshi ^b   Kinoshita, Satoki ^b   Nogi, Hiroko ^b   Kato, Kumiko ^b   Toriumi, Yasuo ^b   Yamashita, Akinori ^b   Kamio, Makiko ^b   Mimoto, Rei ^b   Takeyama, Hiroshi ^b  

^a PHYSICAL FITNESS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Breast cancer; Elderly women; Mammography; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84876690436     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-013-0470-6     Document Type: Article

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