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Letters to the Editor

Response to Condon et al. comments on “Cancer clusters in the USA: What do the last twenty years of state and federal investigations tell us?”

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Pages 75-76 | Received 22 Oct 2012, Accepted 22 Oct 2012, Published online: 15 Nov 2012

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