Some more evidence of long-term psychosocial harms from receiving false-positive screening mammography results

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-

  De Frank, Jessica ^a   Brewer, Noel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RATING SCALE; SCREENING TEST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84895536966     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2013-101409     Document Type: Note

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