Low grade Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS): How best to describe it?

Breast

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 693-696

  Fallowfield, Lesley ^a   Matthews, Lucy ^a   Francis, Adele ^b   Jenkins, Valerie ^a   Rea, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast screening; Clinicians' views; Low grade DCIS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BRITISH CITIZEN; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MALE; ONCOLOGIST; PATHOLOGIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGIST; SCIENTIST; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SURGEON; BREAST TUMOR; CONSENSUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PATHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CONSENSUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM GRADING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84908167842     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: 15323080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2014.06.013     Document Type: Article

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