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• An estimate of the financial, emotional, or social impact that cancer creates within the population. Different racial, ethnic, geographic, and age groups in the United States do not share the burden of disease equally.

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  American Psychological Association (APA)

  Cancer Burden. (n.d.). Glossary of Statistical Terms. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/cancer-burden.

  Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

  Cancer Burden. seer.cancer.gov. Glossary of Statistical Terms. SEER Program. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/cancer-burden (accessed: March 21, 2023).

  Modern Language Association (MLA)

  "Cancer Burden." Glossary of Statistical Terms. SEER Program. 21 March. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/cancer-burden.

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