Anthropometric Factors and Pancreatic Cancer in a Population-based Case–control Study in the San Francisco Bay Area
✍ Scribed by Carey A. Eberle; Paige M. Bracci; Elizabeth A. Holly
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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