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Readability and Non-English Language Resources of Hepatobiliary Cancer Center Websites in the USA

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Gilbert Z. Murimwa is supported by a Physician-Scientist Institutional Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (award no. 1018897) as well as by an NCI/NIH Administrative Supplement (award no. 3R01CA243577-02S1). James W. Stewart II is funded through the Veterans Affairs as a National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) research fellow. Results and discussion from this study do not represent the view of the Veterans Affairs. Patricio M. Polanco is supported by the Eugene Frenkel Clinical Scholars Award at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center.

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  1. Co-first authors: Gilbert Z. Murimwa and James W. Stewart.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Gilbert Z. Murimwa MD, Lucia Zhang BS & Patricio M. Polanco MD

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    James W. Stewart II MD

  3. Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    James W. Stewart II MD & John W. Kunstman MD, MHS

  4. VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    James W. Stewart II MD

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Murimwa, G.Z., Stewart, J.W., Zhang, L. et al. Readability and Non-English Language Resources of Hepatobiliary Cancer Center Websites in the USA. Ann Surg Oncol 30, 3898–3900 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-13387-6

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