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Re: Visual impairment and cancer: a population-based cohort study in Finland

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  1. Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, S-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden

    Maria Feychting & Anders Ahlbom

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Feychting, M., Ahlbom, A. Re: Visual impairment and cancer: a population-based cohort study in Finland. Cancer Causes Control 10, 637 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008978011875

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