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Cumulative incidence of colorectal and extracolonic cancers in MLH1 and MSH2 mutation carriers of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer

✍ Scribed by Kevin M. Lin; M. Shashidharan; Alan G. Thorson; Charles A. Ternent; Garnet J. Blatchford; Mark A. Christensen; Patrice Watson; Stephen J. Lemon; Barbara Franklin; Beth Karr; Jane Lynch; Henry T. Lynch

Book ID: 108488109
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 355 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 1091-255X
DOI: 10.1016/s1091-255x(98)80105-4

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