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Socioeconomic Status Impacts Skin Cancer Survival: Study
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Title Socioeconomic Status Impacts Skin Cancer Survival: Study
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/569031?src=rss
Description Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a strong independent predictor of poor survival among patients from different ethnic groups with invasive cutaneous melanoma, an epidemiologic study indicates. Reuters Health Information
Category Articles > Dermatology
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Date Jan 23, 2008
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