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Received: 3 May 2018

Accepted: 26 September 2018

First Online: 3 October 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval for this study were received by the New Jersey Department of Health, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB #Pro20150001869), and the Scientific Review Board of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ #131505). A waiver of consent was issued for this study given that the data used were de-identified and obtaining informed consent from nearly 170,000 women enrolled in the NJCEED Program would not have been feasible; and, more importantly, obtaining written consent could have biased what would otherwise be a population-based sample and jeopardize the reliability of statistical estimates.

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