Standards-of-service-provision-breast-cancer-patients …

Breast cancer was the second most common cause of death from cancer (after lung cancer) for women in 2009 (658 deaths, accounting for 16.3% of female cancer deaths), with a mortality rate of 30 per 100,000 females (age-standardised 19.9 per 100,000) (Ministry of Health 2012a). ................
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