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The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s (MHLW; Korosho) Cancer Policy Promotion Council (chairman: Morito Monden, director of the Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research) compiled a new “Basic Plan to Promote Anti-cancer Measures” and submitted…
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