Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 513-516 , December 2000

Relationships between nasopharyngeal carcinoma and radioactive elements in soils in China

Received 21 December 1999 ,Accepted 28 February 2000.

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1107

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 513-516 , December 2000

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