Social, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Factors Associated with Cancer Survival: a Population-based Study in Metropolitan Detroit, Michigan

Overview

Journal J Health Care Poor Underserved

Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press

Date 2003 Nov 19

PMID 14619550

Citations 3

Authors

Kevin M Gorey

Eric J Holowaty

Ethan Laukkanen

Isaac N Luginaah

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