Opportunistic mammography screening provides effective detection rates in a limited resource healthcare system

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Teh, Yew Ching ^a   Tan, Gie Hooi ^b   Taib, Nur Aishah ^b   Rahmat, Kartini ^b   Westerhout, Caroline Judy ^b   Fadzli, Farhana ^b   See, Mee Hoong ^b   Jamaris, Suniza ^b   Yip, Cheng Har ^b  

^a Gleneagles Medical Centre   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Low and middle income country; Opportunistic screening mammography; Performance indicators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL DUCTAL HYPERPLASIA; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST LESION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE DURATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MAMMARY GLAND; MASS SCREENING; PATHOLOGY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84938960895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1419-2     Document Type: Article

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