Socioeconomic status and breast cancer disparities

Toward the Elimination of Cancer Disparities: Clinical and Public Health Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-160

  Wallington, Sherrie Flynt ^a   Brawley, Otis W ^b   Holmes, Michelle D ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89443-0_6     Document Type: Chapter

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