Establishing a population-based cancer registry DNA biorepository: the Hawai'i Tumor Registry's Sharing Ohana project.

Hawaii Med J

Hawai'i Tumor Registry, Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.

Published: August 2009

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