## BACKGROUND. The study was launched in the mid-1970s to explore the capability of screening by chest X-ray and sputum cytology to be used as an effective component of the lung cancer control program in the Czech Republic, a Central European country with a high and increasing occurrence of lung c
The impact of breast cancer screening on survival: A 5- to 10-year follow-up study
β Scribed by Ned D. Rodes; Marvin J. Lopez; Dinah K. Pearson; Charles W. Blackwell; Harold D. Lankford
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 538 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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