Building a Latin American cancer patient advocacy movement: Latin American cancer NGO regional overview

Salud Publica de Mexico

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Durstine, Alessandra ^a   Leitman, Elizabeth ^b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; NGO; patient advocacy; Policy making; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; NEOPLASMS; ORGANIZATIONS;

EID: 77952562431     PISSN: 00363634     EISSN: 16067916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-36342009000800023     Document Type: Article

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