Raman, Vignesh MD, MHS∗; Jawitz, Oliver K. MD, MHS∗; Farrow, Norma E. MD, MHS∗; Voigt, Soraya L. MD∗; Rhodin, Kristen E. MD∗; Yang, Chi-Fu J. MD†; Turner, Megan C. MD∗; D’Amico, Thomas A. MD∗; Harpole, David H. MD∗; Tong, Betty C. MD, MHS∗
∗Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
†Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California.
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This paper was selected for oral presentation at the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS) annual meeting in New York City in April 2020, which has been canceled.
The American College of Surgeons is in a Business Associate Agreement that includes a data use agreement with each of its Commission on Cancer accredited hospitals. The data used in the study are derived from a de-identified National Cancer Data Base file. The American College of Surgeons and the Commission on Cancer have not verified and are not responsible for the analytic or statistical methodology used or the conclusions drawn from these data by the investigators.
Drs. Raman and Farrow were supported by a National Institutes of Health T-32 grant 5T32CA093245 in surgical oncology. Dr. Jawitz was supported by a National Institutes of Health T-32 grant 5T32HL069749 in clinical research.
This work received no direct funding.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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