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. 2020 Apr 1;126(7):1585-1586.
doi: 10.1002/cncr.32651. Epub 2019 Dec 10.

Appropriate considerations of "rural" in National Cancer Data Base analyses

Whitney E Zahnd  1
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Appropriate considerations of "rural" in National Cancer Data Base analyses

Whitney E Zahnd. Cancer. .
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