*University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
†University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
‡Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
§The Swan Center for Plastic Surgery, Alpharetta, GA
¶Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
‖University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and
**Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
Reprints: Reshma Jagsi, MD, PhD, DPhil, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, 2800 Plymouth Rd, 4th Floor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. E-mail: [email protected].
Disclosure: Supported by grants R01 CA109696 and R01 CA088370 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to the University of Michigan. Dr Jagsi was supported by a Mentored Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (MRSG-09-145-01). Dr Katz was supported by an Established Investigator Award in Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral, and Population Sciences Research from the NCI (K05CA111340).
The collection of LA County cancer incidence data used in this study was supported by the California Department of Public Health as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885; the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program under contract N01-PC-35139 awarded to the University of Southern California, contract N01-PC-54404 awarded to the Public Health Institute; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries, under agreement 1U58DP00807-01 awarded to the Public Health Institute. The collection of metropolitan Detroit cancer incidence data was supported by the NCI SEER Program contract N01-PC-35145. The ideas and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and endorsement by the State of California, Department of Public Health the National Cancer Institute, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or their Contractors and Subcontractors is not intended, nor should be inferred.
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