A descriptive study of UK cancer genetics services: an emerging clinical response to the new genetics.

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Published in Br J Cancer on July 20, 2001

Authors

D Wonderling1, P Hopwood, A Cull, F Douglas, M Watson, J Burn, K McPherson

Author Affiliations

1: Cancer and Public Health Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.

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