Obtaining 'fresh' consent for genetic research with biological samples archived 10 years ago

Eric Vermeulen1, Marjanka K Schmidt1, Neil K Aaronson1

  • 1Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

European Journal of Cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)
|February 24, 2009
PubMed
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