1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
3Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
4Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
5Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
6Department of Psychology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
7Division of Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA
8Department of Medicine and Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
9Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
10Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
11Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
12Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
13Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
14Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
15Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
E. J. Geiger ✉, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California-Los Angeles, 1225 15th Street, Suite 2100, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA, Email: [email protected]
The institution of one or more of the authors (GTA) has received, during the study period, support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from the Cancer Center Support grant (CA21765) and the American Lebanese-Syrian Associated Charities. The authors (KCO, RH, WML, GTA, EJC) certify that this work was supported by the National Cancer Institute (CA55727).
One author (EJC) certifies receipt of salary support from the Childhood Cancer Study.
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Ethical approval for this study was obtained from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA (number 010559).
This work was performed at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
