Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination Randomized Trial in the Philippines

Abstract

Completed activities: (1) Breast cancer incidence by end of 1999 in all project cohorts. * record linkage between files of incident cases and master files of the intervention cohort; (2) continuing identification and registration of all cases of malignant cancer in the resident population; (3) Re-interview of 123 cases and 978 matched controls selected from the screened cohort. (4) Data analysis and reporting. On-going: (1) Cancer registry follow-up procedures have been established and breast cancer cases are recorded regularly. Clinical details of stage at diagnosis are sought systematically for all cases. (2) Data analysis and reporting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA412015

Entities

People

  • D. M. Parkin

Organizations

  • International Agency for Research on Cancer

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Cancer Screening
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Education
  • Identification
  • Intervention
  • Neoplasms
  • Philippines
  • Physical Examination (Medicine)
  • Pregnancy
  • Risk Factors

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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