Racial variation and cancer: a historical approach.
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At the end of the 19th century, in an attempt to define cancer's etiology, scientists considered that cancer was mainly affecting the white race and the temperate zone countries. In their turn, epidemiological studies held in the early 20th century sustained the dogma of cancer's racial distribution, targeting and stigmatizing ethnic groups.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology
دوره 21 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016