Arab women's breast cancer screening practices: A literature review

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4519-4528

  Donnelly, Tam Truong ^a   Al Khater, Al Hareth ^b   Al Bader, Salha Bujassoum ^b   Al Kuwari, Mohammed Ghaith ^c   Al Meer, Nabila ^b   Malik, Mariam ^c   Singh, Rajvir ^b   Jong, Floor Christie de ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^c PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Arab women's breast cancer; Arab women's breast cancer screening; Breast cancer in the Middle East region

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE;

ARABS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84885721494     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.8.4519     Document Type: Article

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