Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer Incidence, Biochemical Recurrence, and Mortality
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1Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201-1379, USA 2Department of Urology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA 3Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-4067, USA 4Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-7335, USA 5 Integrated Cancer Genomics Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), 445 N. Fifth Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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دوره 2011 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2011