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Recent incidence and descriptive epidemiological survey of breast cancer in Saudi Arabia

Shalini Saggu, Hasibur Rehman, Zahid K. Abbas and Abid A. Ansari
Saudi Medical Journal October 2015, 36 (10) 1176-1180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.12268
Shalini Saggu
From the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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Hasibur Rehman
From the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Zahid K. Abbas
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Abid A. Ansari
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vol. 36 no. 10 1176-1180
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.12268
PubMed 
26446327

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
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  • Received May 10, 2015
  • Accepted September 5, 2015
  • Published online October 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Shalini Saggu, MSc, PhD⇑,
  2. Hasibur Rehman, MSc, PhD,
  3. Zahid K. Abbas, MSc, PhD and
  4. Abid A. Ansari, MSc, PhD
  1. From the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Shalini Saggu, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71491, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: ssaggu{at}ut.edu.sa / shalinisaggu05{at}gmail.com
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