The impact of mammography screening programmes on incidence of advanced breast cancer in Europe: A literature review

BMC Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Broeders, M J M ^a,b   Allgood, P ^c   Duffy, S W ^c   Hofvind, S ^d   Nagtegaal, I D ^a   Paci, E ^e   Moss, S M ^c   Bucchi, L ^f  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LRCB Dutch Expert Centre for Screening   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^e CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^f DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced stage; Breast cancer; Mammography; Review; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 85052716422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-4666-1     Document Type: Article

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