Garg, Harshit
Dursun, Furkan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7756-634X
Alsayegh, Fadi
Wang, Hanzhang
Wu, Shenghui
Liss, Michael A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-1026
Kaushik, Dharam
Svatek, Robert S.
Mansour, Ahmed M. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1068-9131
Article History
Received: 26 May 2022
Revised: 21 August 2022
Accepted: 9 November 2022
First Online: 14 January 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was done in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. It is a retrospective analysis of National Cancer Database and the need for informed consent was waived in view of anonymity of the data. 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 herein; they have not verified and are not responsible for the statistical validity of the data analysis or the conclusions derived by the authors.