Breast cancer: Updated screening guidelines - Much ado about small improvements

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 139-140

  Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl ^a   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SHORT SURVEY; AGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDS;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84959154170     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2015.232     Document Type: Short Survey

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