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Screening for breast cancer with mammography is not supported by current data

✍ Scribed by Debra M. Ikeda; Robert W. Carlson

Book ID
114483706
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
155 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
1363-4054

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