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Cancer epidemiology, prevention and control
CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 86, NO. 4, 25 FEBRUARY 2004 518 N. S. Murthy is in the Institute for Cytology and Preventive Oncology, Maulana Azad Medical College Campus, BSZ Marg, New Delhi 110 002, India; Aleyamma Mathew is in the Division of Epidemiology and Cancer Research, Regional Cancer Centre, Medical College Campus, Thiruvananthapuram 695 011, India *For correspondence. (e-mail: nsmurthy44@yaho...
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1 International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France 2 Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA 4 The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Transitional Epidemiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyy166