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Original Articles

Dietary Vitamin D and Calcium Intake and Premenopausal Breast Cancer Risk in a German Case-Control Study

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Pages 54-61 | Received 01 Feb 2007, Accepted 07 Apr 2007, Published online: 05 Dec 2007

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