The Breast
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 50-54 , February 2010

Breast cancer in Latin America: Experts perceptions compared with medical care standards

  • E. Cazap

      Affiliations

    • Sociedad Latino Americana y del Caribe de Oncologia Medica (SLACOM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • A. Buzaid

      Affiliations

    • Centro Oncológico Hospital Sirio Libanés, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • C. Garbino

      Affiliations

    • Grupo Oncológico del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
    • ,
  • J. de la Garza

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia de Mexico, Mexico
    • ,
  • F. Orlandi

      Affiliations

    • Clínica Santa María, Santiago, Chile
    • ,
  • G. Schwartsmann

      Affiliations

    • Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    • ,
  • C. Vallejos

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN), Lima, Perú
    • ,
  • A. Guercovich

      Affiliations

    • Sociedad Latino Americana y del Caribe de Oncologia Medica (SLACOM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • ,
  • G. Breitbart

      Affiliations

    • Sociedad Latino Americana y del Caribe de Oncologia Medica (SLACOM), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Received 8 October 2009 ,Accepted 26 October 2009.

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PII: S0960-9776(09)00149-0

doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2009.10.011

The Breast
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 50-54 , February 2010

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