Estimates of overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer associated with screening mammography
✍ Scribed by Stephen Morrell; Alexandra Barratt; Les Irwig; Kirsten Howard; Corné Biesheuvel; Bruce Armstrong
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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