Measuring the mortality impact of breast cancer screening

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Hanley, James A ^a   McGregor, Maurice ^a   Liu, Zhihui ^a   Strumpf, Erin C ^a   Dendukuri, Nandini ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Early diagnosis; Mortality; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; CANCER SCREENING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED TRIALS; SURVIVAL RATE;

CANCER SCREENING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED TRIALS;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84893378313     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: 19207476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17269/cjph.104.4099     Document Type: Article

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