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Görges, R. (2005). The Changing Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer. In: Biersack, HJ., Grünwald, F. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27845-1_1

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