Sarmiento, Samuel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6362-9434
McColl, Michael
Musavi, Leila
Gani, Faiz
Canner, Joseph K.
Jacobs, Lisa
Fu, Fanmeng
Siotos, Charalampos
Habibi, Mehran
Article History
Received: 16 October 2019
Accepted: 31 January 2020
First Online: 10 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is a joint project of the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. The CoC’s NCDB and the hospitals participating in the CoC NCDB are the source of the de-identified data used in this report. They have not verified the data and are not responsible for the statistical validity of the data analysis or the conclusions derived by the authors.
: De-identified data from the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB; see title page); IRB review not required. This study conforms to the Declaration of Helsinki ethical principles for medical research.