Review on breast cancer in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Middle East Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 532-543

  Al Diab, Abdurrahman ^a   Qureshi, Shoeb ^b   Al Saleh, Khalid A ^a   Al Qahtani, Farjah H ^a   Aleem, Aamer ^a   Alghamdi, Mohammed A ^a   Alsaif, A ^a   Bokhari, Areej A ^a   Qureshi, Viquar Fatima ^a   Qureshi, Mohammad Rehan ^c  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b PRINCE SATTAM BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c DECCAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidemiology; Etiology; Knowledge of BSE; KSA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880298374     PISSN: 19909233     EISSN: 19998147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.14.4.7327     Document Type: Article

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