Mapping cancer for community engagement

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Beyer, Kirsten M M ^a   Rushton, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; UNITED STATES;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; MAPS AS TOPIC;

EID: 59149085670     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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