Cancer prevention in Africa: a review of the literature

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Global Health Promotion

• Publication date

  2015-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/1757975914537094PMID 25027971
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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