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A Biological Principle and its Converse: Some Implications for Carcinogenesis

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  1. P. R. J. BURCH: On one year leave of absence from the Medical Research Council Environmental Radiation Research Unit, Department of Medical Physics, University of Leeds, until August 1962

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BURCH, P. A Biological Principle and its Converse: Some Implications for Carcinogenesis. Nature 195, 241–243 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195241a0

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