Why do breast cancer patients report late or abscond during treatment in ghana? A pilot study.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Ghana Medical Journal

• Publication date

  2009-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  PMID 20126325PMCID PMC2810246
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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