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Editorial
. 2022 Oct 1;128(19):3446-3448.
doi: 10.1002/cncr.34389. Epub 2022 Aug 8.

Sex disparities in cancer: An ongoing quest

Jingqin R Luo  1   2 , Graham A Colditz  1   2
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Editorial

Sex disparities in cancer: An ongoing quest

Jingqin R Luo et al. Cancer. .
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Graham A. Colditz reports grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the National Cancer Institute outside the submitted work. Jingqin R. Luo reports grants from the National Institutes of Health outside the submitted work.

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