Clinical features of colorectal cancer before diagnosis: a population-based case-control study.

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Published in Br J Cancer on August 22, 2005

Authors

W Hamilton1, A Round, D Sharp, T J Peters

Author Affiliations

1: Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. w.hamilton@bristol.ac.uk

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