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Defining and updating the american cancer society guidelines for the cancer-related checkup: Prostate and endometrial cancers

  1. Curtis Mettlin PhD1,
  2. George Jones MD2,
  3. Hervy Averette MD3,
  4. S. B. Gusberg MD, DSc4,
  5. Gerald P. Murphy MD5

Article first published online: 31 DEC 2008

DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.43.1.42

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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volume 43, Issue 1, pages 42–46, January/February 1993

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Mettlin, C., Jones, G., Averette, H., Gusberg, S. B. and Murphy, G. P. (1993), Defining and updating the american cancer society guidelines for the cancer-related checkup: Prostate and endometrial cancers. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 43: 42–46. doi: 10.3322/canjclin.43.1.42

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  1. 1

    Consultant to the American Cancer Society National Prostate Cancer Detection Project and Chief of Epidemiologie Research and Director of Cancer Control at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York

  2. 2

    Chairman of the American Cancer Society Task Force on Prostate Cancer and Professor of Urology at Howard University Medical School in Washington, DC

  3. 3

    Chairman of the American Cancer Society Gynecologic Cancer Advisory Group and Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida

  4. 4

    Special Consultant to the American Cancer Society and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and the former Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University in New York, New York

  5. 5

    Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society and Editor in Chief of Ca.

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  1. Issue published online: 31 DEC 2008
  2. Article first published online: 31 DEC 2008

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