Cancer services and their initiatives to improve the care of indigenous Australians

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Cancer services and their initiatives to improve the care of indigenous Australians

Â© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Indigenous Australians continue to experience significantly poorer outcomes from cancer than non-Indigenous Australians. Despite the importance of culturally appropriate cancer services in improving outcomes, there is a lack of awareness of...

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Main Authors:	Taylor, E., Haigh, M., Shahid, Shaouli, Garvey, G., Cunningham, J., Thompson, S.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2018
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68017

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