Pilot Study of a Resource-Appropriate Strategy for Downstaging Breast Cancer in Rural Uganda

Breast cancer incidence and mortality are rapidly increasing in low- and middle-income countries like Uganda. Shifting the proportion of women presenting with late-stage breast cancer to early-stage breast cancer (downstaging) at the time of diagnosis would substantially improve survival and efficie...

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Main Authors: Alphonsus Matovu, John R. Scheel, Picho Alli Shadrack, Renny Ssembatya, Angela Njeri, Moses Galukande, Kristen K. DeStigter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Massachusetts Medical School 2016-05-01
Series:Journal of Global Radiology
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Online Access:http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jgr/vol2/iss1/1/