Breast cancer in young women: Rare disease or public health problem?

JAMA Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 877-878

  Rosenberg, Shoshana M ^a   Newman, Lisa A ^b   Partridge, Ann H ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84965090912     PISSN: 23742437     EISSN: 23742445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.2112     Document Type: Short Survey

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