Improvements in survival from childhood cancer: results of a population based survey over 30 years.

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Published in Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) on May 14, 1988

Authors

J M Birch1, H B Marsden, P H Jones, D Pearson, V Blair

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1: University of Manchester.

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