Ovarian cancer screening: UKCTOCS trial – Authors' reply

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10038, 2016, Pages 2603-2604

  Jacobs, Ian J ^a,b,c   Parmar, Mahesh ^a   Skates, Steven J ^d,e   Menon, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; OVARY CANCER; PERITONEUM CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; MORTALITY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84976549150     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30849-2     Document Type: Letter

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