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Letter to the Editor: Cancer Epidemiology

Body mass index and its association with 22 cancer types: a Norwegian cohort study of 481 202 cancer cases

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Pages 1273-1278 | Received 07 Jul 2023, Accepted 08 Sep 2023, Published online: 15 Sep 2023

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