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  1. General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

    Mary McNaughton Collins

  2. Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

    Robert H. Fletcher

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McNaughton Collins, M., Fletcher, R.H. Conference report: Research questions concerning prostate cancer screening. Cancer Causes Control 8, 668–671 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018410817024

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