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The Quartercentenary Lecture

Undernutrition and chronic disease: cancer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

David Kritchevsky
David Kritchevsky
Affiliation:
The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4268, USA
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 39 - 47
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