Cancer incidence in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: disparities in Appalachia.

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Published in J Rural Health on January 01, 2005

Authors

Eugene J Lengerich1, Thomas C Tucker, Raymond K Powell, Pat Colsher, Erik Lehman, Ann J Ward, Jennifer C Siedlecki, Stephen W Wyatt

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033-0855, USA. elengerich@psu.edu

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