Breast Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Emerging and Challenging Epidemic

Breast cancer is a major health care problem that affects more than one million women yearly. While it is traditionally thought of as a disease of the industrialized world, around 45% of breast cancer cases and 55% of breast cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Managing breast can...

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Autores principales: Tfayli, Arafat, Temraz, Sally, Abou Mrad, Rachel, Shamseddine, Ali
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21209708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/490631
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description Breast cancer is a major health care problem that affects more than one million women yearly. While it is traditionally thought of as a disease of the industrialized world, around 45% of breast cancer cases and 55% of breast cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Managing breast cancer in low income countries poses a different set of challenges including access to screening, stage at presentation, adequacy of management and availability of therapeutic interventions. In this paper, we will review the challenges faced in the management of breast cancer in low and middle income countries.
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spelling pubmed-30106632011-01-05 Breast Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Emerging and Challenging Epidemic Tfayli, Arafat Temraz, Sally Abou Mrad, Rachel Shamseddine, Ali J Oncol Review Article Breast cancer is a major health care problem that affects more than one million women yearly. While it is traditionally thought of as a disease of the industrialized world, around 45% of breast cancer cases and 55% of breast cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Managing breast cancer in low income countries poses a different set of challenges including access to screening, stage at presentation, adequacy of management and availability of therapeutic interventions. In this paper, we will review the challenges faced in the management of breast cancer in low and middle income countries. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3010663/ /pubmed/21209708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/490631 Text en Copyright © 2010 Arafat Tfayli et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Breast Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Emerging and Challenging Epidemic
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title_fullStr Breast Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Emerging and Challenging Epidemic
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title_short Breast Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Emerging and Challenging Epidemic
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/490631
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