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Stress and cancer: Nordic pieces to the complex puzzle

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  1. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Fang Fang

  2. Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University and Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

    Katja Fall

  3. Centre of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Unnur Valdimarsdóttir

  4. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Unnur Valdimarsdóttir

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Fang, F., Fall, K. & Valdimarsdóttir, U. Stress and cancer: Nordic pieces to the complex puzzle. Eur J Epidemiol 30, 525–527 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0074-x

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