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Research Article

Quantifying cancer: Metrics, self-sustainable philanthropy, and tacit epistemological ethics in an East Indian cancer hospital

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Article: 2224419 | Received 29 Sep 2022, Accepted 07 Jun 2023, Published online: 13 Jun 2023

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