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Incidence of Soft Tissue Sarcomas in an Italian Area Affected by Illegal Waste Dumping Sites

Marta BenedettiUnit of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health, Rome, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Lucia FazzoUnit of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
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Carlotta BuzzoniClinical and Descriptive Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Study and Prevention, Florence, Italy
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Pietro CombaUnit of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
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Corrado MagnaniCPO, Piemonte and Unit of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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Mario FuscoCancer Registry Campania Region, Local Health Authority Naples 3 South, Brusciano, Italy
Pages 154-159 | Received 04 Jun 2012, Accepted 30 Jul 2013, Published online: 21 May 2015

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