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Original Article

Yorkshire Case Control Study of Leukaemias and Lymphomas Parallel Multivariate Analyses of Seven Disease Categories

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Pages 67-80 | Received 25 Jun 1989, Accepted 01 Aug 1989, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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