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Authors
Basourakos, Spyridon P.
Al Hussein Al Awamlh, Bashir
Borregales, Leonardo D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9280-3307
Abrahimi, Parwiz
Sedrakyan, Art
Shoag, Jonathan E.
Hu, Jim C.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (CA241758)
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (CER-2019C1-15682)
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
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Article History
Received: 7 January 2022
Accepted: 5 February 2022
First Online: 27 April 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: SEER-Medicare data are considered by HIPAA requirements as a limited data set, which requires that investigators sign a Data Use Agreement prior to receiving the data. This exception allows for the release of the SEER-Medicare data without obtaining authorization from individual patients (see Federal Register, August 14, 2002, pg 53235).
: Our study was approved by the Weill Cornell Medicine Institutional Review Board. Medicare files used were in accordance with data agreement between National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS).
