Contribution of early detection and adjuvant treatments to breast cancer mortality reduction in Catalonia, Spain.

BACKGROUND: Reductions in breast cancer (BC) mortality in Western countries have been attributed to the use of screening mammography and adjuvant treatments. The goal of this work was to analyze the contributions of both interventions to the decrease in BC mortality between 1975 and 2008 in Cataloni...

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Main Authors: Ester Vilaprinyo, Teresa Puig, Montserrat Rue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3260221?pdf=render