Kidney cancer in the Swedish Family Cancer Database: Familial risks and second primary malignancies
β Scribed by Czene, Kamila; Hemminki, Kari
- Book ID
- 104474443
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0085-2538
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