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Mar 2024
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Helena Carreira on fracture risk in canc...

The Lancet Group
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Helena Carreira discuses her recent work on the risk of fractures in half a million survivors of 20 cancers in England. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00285-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ ... Show More
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