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Refusal of Surgery Among Patients with Early-Stage Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Cancers: Predictive Factors and Outcomes

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  1. Rayyan S. Mirdad and Diamantis I. Tsilimigras contributed equally as first authors

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  1. Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland

    Rayyan S. Mirdad

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA

    Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, J. Madison Hyer, Adrian Diaz, Rosevine A. Azap & Timothy M. Pawlik

  3. National Clinician Scholars Program at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Adrian Diaz

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Mirdad, R.S., Tsilimigras, D.I., Hyer, J.M. et al. Refusal of Surgery Among Patients with Early-Stage Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Cancers: Predictive Factors and Outcomes. J Gastrointest Surg 25, 1573–1575 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-020-04885-z

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