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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

The Relation of Ideology of Positive Thinking with the Perception of Cancer Risk and Ways of Treating It in Medellin, Colombia

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Pages 3329-3345 | Received 08 Jul 2022, Accepted 13 Oct 2022, Published online: 16 Nov 2022

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