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Dietary fat and cancer: rejoinder and discussion of research strategies

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Prentice, R.L., Sheppard, L. Dietary fat and cancer: rejoinder and discussion of research strategies. Cancer Causes Control 2, 53–58 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052360

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