Alcohol
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 161-168 , April 2005

Epidemiology of alcohol-associated cancers

  • Linda Morris Brown

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Received 11 February 2005 ,Revised 21 March 2005 ,Accepted 25 March 2005.

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