Advocacy. Necessary to achieve cancer control goals.

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Published in Cancer on December 01, 1991

Authors

B Berkman1, E Stevenson, K G Cravedi, A Davis, W Lawrence, V Mor, V Ostrander, L J Rubenstein, M Speers, K Wilson

Author Affiliations

1: Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

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