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Intimate Partner Violence and Cancer Screening among Urban Minority Women

Sheetal Gandhi, Sue Rovi, Marielos Vega, Mark S. Johnson, Jeanne Ferrante and Ping-Hsin Chen
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2010, 23 (3) 343-353; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2010.03.090124
Sheetal Gandhi
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Sue Rovi
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Marielos Vega
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Mark S. Johnson
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Jeanne Ferrante
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Ping-Hsin Chen
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