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. 2020 Jun 20;395(10241):1884-1885.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31240-X. Epub 2020 May 29.

Cancer and COVID-19: what do we really know?

Philip M Poortmans  1 , Valentina Guarneri  2 , Maria-João Cardoso  3
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Cancer and COVID-19: what do we really know?

Philip M Poortmans et al. Lancet. .
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