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Evaluating Geographic Health Disparities in Cancer Care: Example of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem

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Support was provided by the GeoSpatial Resource, a section of the Biostatistical and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the Dartmouth Cancer Center, with NCI Cancer Center support Grant 5P30CA023108. The research reported in this publication also was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award No. NCI K08 CA263546.

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  1. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA

    Constance P. Fontanet MPH, Heather Carlos MS, Maria C. Gil Diaz BS & Andrew P. Loehrer MD, MPH

  2. Dartmouth Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Julie E. Weiss MS & Andrew P. Loehrer MD, MPH

  3. Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    Xun Shi PhD

  4. University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Tracy Onega PhD

  5. Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Andrew P. Loehrer MD, MPH

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Fontanet, C.P., Carlos, H., Weiss, J.E. et al. Evaluating Geographic Health Disparities in Cancer Care: Example of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. Ann Surg Oncol 30, 6987–6989 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-14140-9

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