An audit of screening for familial breast cancer before 50 years in the South Thames Region – have we got it right?
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Familial Cancer
- Vol. 3 (1), 29-34
- https://doi.org/10.1023/b:fame.0000026818.34049.84
Abstract
We have carried out an audit of breast screening by mammography under 50 years of age in a cohort of 192 women attending family cancer clinics run by the South Thames genetic services. Of these...Keywords
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