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Compliance in Breast Cancer Screening: the Spanish Experience

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Breast Cancer Screening in Europe

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Navarra is a region situated to the south of the Western Pyrenees in the North of the Iberian Peninsula. It is an autonomous community with a high degree of self-government within the Spanish State, and has a regional parliament and a government which has full powers in the health sector.

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  1. Department of Health, Government of Navarra, C/ Conde Oliveto 9, 31002, Pamplona, Spain

    Nieves Ascunce & Angel Del Moral

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  1. Nieves Ascunce
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  1. Department of Clinical Pathology and Cytology, Falun Hospital, 791 82, Falun, Sweden

    Adel Gad M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  2. Centro per lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica, Viale A. Volta, 171, 50131, Firenze, Italy

    Marco Rosselli Del Turco M.D.

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Ascunce, N., Del Moral, A. (1993). Compliance in Breast Cancer Screening: the Spanish Experience. In: Gad, A., Del Turco, M.R. (eds) Breast Cancer Screening in Europe. ESO Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78154-4_7

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