The global epidemic of early-onset cancer: nature, nurture, or both?

Ann Oncol

Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.

Published: December 2024

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