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Article History

Received: 9 July 2025

Accepted: 29 December 2025

First Online: 31 January 2026

Declarations

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: Kentucky cancer data have been provided by the Kentucky Cancer Registry, 2365 Harrodsburg Road, Lexington, KY 40504 ( ). Data from the Kentucky Cancer Registry is supported by the following: Cooperative Agreement #NU58DP007144 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Contract #HHSN261201800013I from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. The ideas and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or their Contractors and Subcontractors, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The collection of cancer incidence data in Georgia was supported by contract HHSN261201800003I, Task Order HHSN26100001 from the NCI, and cooperative agreement 6NU58DP006352-05-01 from the CDC. This work was supported in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Program of Cancer Registries through cooperative agreement NU58DP007218 awarded to the New York State Department of Health and by Contract HHSN261201800005I (Task Order HHSN26100001) from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.The authors declare no competing interests.

: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of Duke University (Pro00101872).

: This study was approved by Duke University and the participating registries’ Institutional Review Boards (Pro00101872). All participants included provided informed consent.