Observations of relevance to understanding the etiology of breast cancer have been made recently both by endocrinologists and by epidemiologists. Generally speaking, investigators in these 2 disciplines have worked in ignorance of the contributions of the other field. When the observations from the
Epidemiology of breast cancer
โ Scribed by J. N. P. Davies
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 96 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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