The role of health policy in the burden of breast cancer in Brazil

• Main Authors: Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo (Author), Tábata Cristina do Carmo Almeida (Author), Débora Terra Cardial (Author), Érika da Silva Maciel (Author), Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca (Author), Fernando Adami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Breast cancer affects millions of women worldwide, particularly in Brazil, where public healthcare system is an important model in health organization and the cost of chronic disease has affected the economy in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The aim was to evaluate...