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Flowchart of the selection process of eligible patients from the SEER database.
Abbreviations: SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; ICD-O-3, International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition.
