Breast cancer mortality in organised mammography screening in Denmark: Comparative study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7750, 2010, Pages 797-

  Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl ^a   Zahl, Per Henrik ^b   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TREND STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84881315146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1241     Document Type: Article

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