Geographic disparities in surgery for breast and rectal cancer in Canada.

Curr Oncol

Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto, ON. ; Departments of Surgery and of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.

Published: April 2014

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3747/co.21.1936DOI Listing

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