Screening by Clinical Breast Examination in Western Kenya: Who Comes?
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Screening by Clinical Breast Examination in Western Kenya: Who Comes?
PURPOSE More than 80% of women with breast cancer in Kenya present to medical care with established late-stage disease. We sought to understand why women might not participate in breast cancer screening when it is offered by comparing the views of a cohort of those who attended a screening special event with those of community controls who did not attend. METHODS All residents living close to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Oncology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2378-9506,2378-9506
DOI: 10.1200/jgo.2015.000687