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How Men with Prostate Cancer Choose Specialists: A Qualitative Study

Tammy Jiang, Christian H. Stillson, Craig Evan Pollack, Linda Crossette, Michelle Ross, Archana Radhakrishnan and David Grande
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2017, 30 (2) 220-229; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.02.160163

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