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Attending cultural events and cancer mortality: A Swedish cohort study

Lars Olov Bygren Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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Sven-Erik Johansson Centre for Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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Benson Boinkum Konlaan Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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Andrej M. Grjibovski Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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Anna V. Wilkinson Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael Sjöström Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Pages 64-73 | Received 13 Jun 2008, Accepted 07 Aug 2008, Published online: 25 Feb 2009

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