Evaluation of a cancer prevention and detection curriculum for medical students.

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Published in Prev Med on July 01, 2002

Authors

Alan C Geller1, Marianne N Prout, Donald R Miller, Benjamin Siegel, Ting Sun, Judith Ockene, Howard K Koh

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. ageller@bu.edu

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