Excess lung-cancer—mortality rates among mexican women in California
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1957
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(195701/02)10:1<63::aid-cncr2820100108>3.0.co;2-n