Is the tide turning against breast screening?

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; DENMARK; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 84902085557     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr3212     Document Type: Editorial

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