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Are life events related to the onset of breast cancer?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

R. McGee ,
S. Williams  and
M. Elwood
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 441 - 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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