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. 1990 Dec;62(6):878–881. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1990.400

The feasibility of testing experimentally the dietary fat-breast cancer hypothesis.

N F Boyd, M Cousins, G Lockwood, D Tritchler
PMCID: PMC1971571  PMID: 2257214

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