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. 2014 Jul 3:8:ed39.
doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2014.ed39. eCollection 2014.

Cancer and ageism

Ulrich Wedding  1 , Reinhard Stauder  2
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Cancer and ageism

Ulrich Wedding et al. Ecancermedicalscience. .
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