Achey, Rebecca L.
Khanna, Vishesh
Ostrom, Quinn T.
Kruchko, Carol
Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-9304
Funding for this research was provided by:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (200-2016-M-90304)
The Sontag Foundation
Genentech
Novocure
Celldex
AbbVie
Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research and Information
Voices Against Brain Cancer
Elekta
Zelda Dorin Tetenbaum Memorial Fund
Article History
Received: 21 November 2016
Accepted: 3 April 2017
First Online: 10 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. For this type of study, formal consent was not required.
: This was a retrospective study using de-identified national cancer registries. Thus, formal consent was not required.