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Familial cancers in a nationwide family cancer database: age distribution and prevalence

✍ Scribed by K Hemminki; P Vaittinen

Book ID
117666730
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
140 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0959-8049

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