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ASO Author Reflections: Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders

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Funding Grant No. R01-CA240582 (P.L.N.) and No. P30 CA008748 (E.C.D.).

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  1. Nina N. Sanford and Edward Christopher Dee have contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Bhav Jain BS

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Simar Singh Bajaj BS

  3. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Tej A. Patel BS

  4. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Neha Vapiwala MD

  5. Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Miranda B. Lam MD, MBA

  6. Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Miranda B. Lam MD, MBA, Vinayak Muralidhar MD, MSc & Paul L. Nguyen MD

  7. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Brandon A. Mahal MD

  8. Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR, USA

    Vinayak Muralidhar MD, MSc

  9. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA

    Troy B. Amen MD, MBA

  10. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA

    Nina N. Sanford MD

  11. Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Edward Christopher Dee MD

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V.M. is employed by Northwest Permanente. B.A.M. receives funding from the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the Department of Defense, and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center outside the submitted work. P.L.N. reported receiving research funding from Astellas, Bayer, and Janssen; P.L.N. has consulted for Novartis, Bayer, Janssen, Nanocan, Boston Scientific, and AIQ; P.L.N. reports equity in Nanocan and Stratagen Bio.

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Jain, B., Bajaj, S.S., Patel, T.A. et al. ASO Author Reflections: Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ann Surg Oncol 30, 5506–5508 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-13560-x

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