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Diversity Among Surgical Faculty, Residents, and Oncology Fellows from 2011/2012 to 2019/2020

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Dr. Fayanju is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number 1K08CA241390 (PI: Fayanju). This work is also supported by the Duke Cancer Institute through NIH grant P30CA014236 (PI: Kastan). The content of this manuscript is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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  1. Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Alice Yunzi L. Yu BSPH

  2. The University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Yoshiko Iwai MS

  3. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Samantha M. Thomas MB

  4. Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Samantha M. Thomas MB & Georgia M. Beasley MD

  5. Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Georgia M. Beasley MD & Ranjan Sudan MD

  6. Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Oluwadamilola M. Fayanju MD

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Concept and design: Y, I, F, Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Y, I, T, F. Drafting of the manuscript: Y, I, T, F. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors Statistical analysis: T. Obtained funding: F, Administrative, technical, or material support: F. Supervision: F.

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None of the other authors has any relevant conflicts of interest to disclose. Samantha Thomas — P30 Cancer Center Support Grant from NCI/NIH (2P30CA014236); Consulting work with Abbvie, Inc. on bioequivalence, unrelated to this work. This relationship ended in January 2019.

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Abstract presented at the 17th Annual Academic Surgical Congress in 2022.

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Yu, A.Y.L., Iwai, Y., Thomas, S.M. et al. Diversity Among Surgical Faculty, Residents, and Oncology Fellows from 2011/2012 to 2019/2020. Ann Surg Oncol 29, 2763–2765 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-11170-z

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