## Background: No single occupational or environmental agent has been established as causing ovarian cancer, existing studies often being based on ecologic or proportional mortality data in which potential confounders related to reproductive history have not been taken into account. ## Methods: T
Colon Cancer Survival in Finland
โ Scribed by G. Launoy; M. Gignoux; X. L. Coutour; Anssi Auvinen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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