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. 1994 Jun;87(6):334–337. doi: 10.1177/014107689408700612

The epidemiology of oesophageal cancer in the UK and other European countries.

G J Macfarlane 1, P Boyle 1
PMCID: PMC1294563  PMID: 8046704

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