Risk factors for delayed presentation and referral of symptomatic cancer: evidence for common cancers.

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Published in Br J Cancer on December 03, 2009

Authors

U Macleod1, E D Mitchell, C Burgess, S Macdonald, A J Ramirez

Author Affiliations

1: General Practice and Primary Care, Division of Community Based Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1 Horselethill Road, Glasgow, UK. u.macleod@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

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