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Factors Associated with Loss to Follow-up among Cervical Cancer Patients in Rwanda

Annals of Global Health
Volume 86 (2020): Issue 1
By: Placide Habinshuti,  Marc Hagenimana,  Cam Nguyen,  Paul H. Park,  Tharcisse Mpunga,  Lawrence N. Shulman,  Alexandra Fehr,  Gilbert Rukundo,  Jean Bosco Bigirimana,  Stephanie Teeple,  Catherine Kigonya,  Gilles Francois Ndayisaba,  Francois Uwinkindi,  Thomas Randall and  Ann C. Miller  
Open Access
|Sep 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2722 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Published on: Sep 14, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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