Cancer in Pacific people in New Zealand: a descriptive study.

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Published in Pac Health Dialog on September 01, 2004

Authors

Sunia Foliaki1, Mona Jeffreys, Craig Wright, Karen Blakey, Neil Pearce

Author Affiliations

1: Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Tonga.

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