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ISRN Oncology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 614198, 10 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/614198
Research Article
Risk of Cancer Mortality in Spanish Towns Lying in the Vicinity of Pollutant Industries
1Department of Environmental Epidemiology and Cancer, National Centre for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Avenida Monforte de Lemos, 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain
2CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 08003 Madrid, Spain
3Division of Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
Received 7 May 2012; Accepted 7 August 2012
Academic Editors: R.-J. Bensadoun and J. M. Zidan
Copyright © 2012 Rebeca Ramis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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