Screening is only part of the answer to breast cancer

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 861-863

  Harris, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOTE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RISK REDUCTION; TUMOR INVASION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84902674972     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-0616     Document Type: Note

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