Pinheiro, Laura C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6920-8526
Check, Devon K.
Rosenstein, Donald
Reeder-Hayes, Katherine E.
Dusetzina, Stacie
Funding for this research was provided by:
UNC's Clinical &Translational Science Award (UL1TR001111)
Article History
Received: 12 March 2018
Accepted: 3 August 2018
First Online: 10 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures.
: This study used the linked SEER-Medicare database. The interpretation and reporting of these data are the sole responsibility of the authors. The authors acknowledge the efforts of the National Cancer Institute; the Office of Research, Development and Information, CMS; Information Management Services (IMS), Inc.; and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program tumor registries in the creation of the SEER-Medicare database.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consent from study subjects was not needed as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill IRB granted this research exemption from review. All authors have read and approved the manuscript for submission to Supportive Care in Cancer. This manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal.