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Progress and pitfalls in the social epidemiology of cancer

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Pittsboro Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7430

    Jay S. Kaufman

  2. Carolinas Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516-3997

    Jay S. Kaufman

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Kaufman, J.S. Progress and pitfalls in the social epidemiology of cancer. Cancer Causes Control 10, 489–494 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008958104748

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