Risk for familial breast cancer increases with age
✍ Scribed by Hemminki, Kari; Granström, Charlotta
- Book ID
- 109918024
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1061-4036
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