ASO Author Reflections: Disparities in Receipt of Palliative Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer: Did Medicaid Expansion Help?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. hkhan18@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Internal Medicine, The University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, The University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Hamza Khan et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;30(1):189-190.

doi: 10.1245/s10434-022-12638-2. Epub 2022 Oct 16.

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. hkhan18@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Internal Medicine, The University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, The University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Palliative Therapies in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: Does Medicaid Expansion Make a Difference?
Khan H, Cherla D, Mehari K, Tripathi M, Butler TW, Crook ED, Heslin MJ, Johnston FM, Fonseca AL. Khan H, et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Jan;30(1):179-188. doi: 10.1245/s10434-022-12563-4. Epub 2022 Sep 28. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023. PMID: 36169753 Free PMC article.

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