Calculating cancer latency using data from a nested case-control study of prostatic cancer
✍ Scribed by David F. Goldsmith
- Book ID
- 117136044
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9681
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