Breast Cancer in Countries of Limited Resources
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Experiences of breast cancer survivor-advocates and advocates in countries with limited resources: a shared journey in breast cancer advocacy.
The last decade has been marked by rapid growth in the breast cancer advocacy movement around the world. Today such movements are well established in North America and western Europe, and are emerging and gaining momentum in regions of the world with limited resources--Africa, Asia, eastern Europe, and Latin America. Internationally breast cancer advocates have faced the challenges of dealing w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Breast Care
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1661-3805,1661-3791
DOI: 10.1159/000114409