From the set-up of a screening program of breast cancer patients to the identification of the first BRCA mutation in the DR Congo

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Luyeye Mvila, Gertrude ^a,b   Postema, Sandra ^b   Marchal, Guy ^b   Van Limbergen, Erik ^b   Verdonck, Fons ^b   Matthijs, Gert ^c   Devriendt, Koen ^c   Michils, Genevieve ^c   Van Ongeval, Chantal ^b  

^a Kasavubu University   (Congo)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Central Africa; DRC; Gene mutation; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CONGO; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CONGO; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION;

EID: 84906539117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-759     Document Type: Article

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