Ethnoepidemiology, a new paradigm, for studying cancer risk factors and prevention strategy

Gann Monographs on Cancer Research

Volumn 44, Issue , 1996, Pages 3-12

  Tajima, Kazuo ^a   Sonoda, Shunro ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030405095     PISSN: 00720151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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