History of the Growing Burden of Cancer in India: From Antiquity to the 21st Century
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- 1 December 2019
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Global Oncology
- Vol. 5 (5), 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jgo.19.00048
Abstract
This review traces the growing burden of cancer in India from antiquity. We searched PubMed, Internet Archive, the British Library, and several other sources for information on cancer in Indian his...This publication has 71 references indexed in Scilit:
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