‘Catch it early, save a life and save a breast’: This misleading mantra of mammography

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 338-339

  Baum, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; UTILIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84950320164     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: 17581095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076815603563     Document Type: Editorial

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