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. 2023 Dec 1;13:1309699. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1309699

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Flow chart illustrating patient inclusion and exclusion. A total of 65,836 patients were extracted from the database. There were 5,691 people left after we ruled out data that didn’t fit our criteria. A total of 468 patients were enrolled in the study after a propensity matched 1:1 test.