Clinical Breast Examination: Practical Recommendations for Optimizing Performance and Reporting
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Clinical breast examination: practical recommendations for optimizing performance and reporting.
Clinical breast examination (CBE) seeks to detect breast abnormalities or evaluate patient reports of symptoms to find palpable breast cancers at an earlier stage of progression. Treatment options for earlier-stage cancers are generally more numerous, include less toxic alternatives, and are usually more effective than treatments for later-stage cancers. For average-risk women aged 40 and young...
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عنوان ژورنال: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0007-9235
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.54.6.327