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Post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer: the key role of molecular pathological epidemiology
Tsuyoshi Hamada1, Reiko Nishihara2, Shuji Ogino3
1Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology
|March 10, 2017
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