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. 2012 Dec 10;30(35):4294-6.
doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.44.0586. Epub 2012 Oct 1.

Gleason score 6 adenocarcinoma: should it be labeled as cancer?

H Ballentine Carter  1 , Alan W Partin, Patrick C Walsh, Bruce J Trock, Robert W Veltri, William G Nelson, Donald S Coffey, Eric A Singer, Jonathan I Epstein
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Gleason score 6 adenocarcinoma: should it be labeled as cancer?

H Ballentine Carter et al. J Clin Oncol. .
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