Is it time to stop teaching breast self-examination?
PubMedPublished 26 June 2001Open access
Larissa Nekhlyudov, Suzanne W. Fletcher
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In North America most women are aware of BSE, and about one-third perform the examination regularly, but the majority of primary care physicians report either teaching BSE to.
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