Etiologic factors for male breast cancer in the U.S. Veterans Affairs medical care system database
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US Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system as a resource to epidemiologists.
Epidemiologists have utilized several health care systems with large numbers of enrollees and centralized databases to achieve their research aims. Although containing many of the features that have made certain health care systems valuable to the conduct of epidemiologic research, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical care system has not been well utilized by epidemiologists. This...
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عنوان ژورنال: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0167-6806,1573-7217
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-009-0379-0