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. 2020 Aug 1;6(8):1289-1290.
doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.1040.

Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival

Ying Liu  1   2 , Graham A Colditz  1   2 , Benjamin D Kozower  1   2 , Aimee James  1   2 , Tracy Greever-Rice  3 , Chester Schmaltz  4 , Min Lian  2   5
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Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival

Ying Liu et al. JAMA Oncol. .

Abstract

This cohort study uses Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results data to assess if Medicaid expansion is associated with improved population-level survival in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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