Reply to the letter to the editor ''No major impact of mammography screening on the age specific incidence rates of breast cancer in the Netherlands'' Dear Sir, Implementation of mammographic screening programs for breast cancer has coincided with large changes in age specific incidence for this can
No major impact of mammography screening on the age specific incidence rates of breast cancer in the Netherlands
✍ Scribed by Helena M. Verkooijen; Gérald Fioretta; Margriet van der Heiden; Veronica C.M. Koot; Christine Bouchardy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 61 KB
- Volume
- 119
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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