Imaging surveillance programs for women at high breast cancer risk in Europe: Are women from ethnic minority groups adequately included? (Review)
- Authors:
- Karen Belkić
- Miri Cohen
- Brigitte Wilczek
- Sonia Andersson
- Anne H. Berman
- Marcela Márquez
- Vladana Vukojević
- Miriam Mints
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Affiliations: The Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Departments of Oncology-Pathology, Women's and Children's Health and of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden, University of Haifa, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa, Israel, Sankt Görans Hospital, Unilabs Department of Mammography, Stockholm, Sweden - Published online on: June 26, 2015 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2015.3063
- Pages: 817-839
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