An appeal to world leaders: Stop cancer now

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9865, 2013, Pages 425-426

  Cavalli, Franco ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84873709048     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60059-8     Document Type: Note

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