Patients Lost to Follow-Up for Cervical Cancer in the Limbe Regional Hospital
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Lost to follow-up.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Oncology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2378-9506
DOI: 10.1200/jgo.18.00067