Serum concentration of selected macro- and microelements and their correlation with the risk of breast and ovarian cancer among BRCA1 mutation carriers
✍ Scribed by Magdalena Muszyńska; Grzegorz Sukiennicki; Tomasz Huzarski; Jacek Gronwald; Cezary Cybulski; Tadeusz Dębniak; Aleksandra Tołoczko-Grabarek; Oleg Ashuryk; Anna Jakubowska; Antoni Morawski; Jan Lubiński
- Book ID
- 115027865
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1897-4287
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