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Address correspondence to Dr Adami, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University Hospital, S-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden. This paper was presented at the 40th anniversary symposium of the Swedish Cancer Society in Stockholm, Sweden, 22 October 1991.
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Adami, HO. What is progress against cancer?. Cancer Causes Control 4, 483–487 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00050868
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