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Correspondence to Lesley S. Park, PhD, MPH, Stanford University School of Medicine, Center on Health Policy/Center on Primary Care and Outcomes Research, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305-6006, USA. Tel: +1 650 725 3655; fax: +1 650 723 1919; e-mail: lesley.park@stanford.edu
Author contributions: L.S.P., J.P.T., A.C.J., and R.D. designed the study.
L.S.P. and R.D. wrote the initial drafts of the manuscript.
L.S.P. performed the analyses with supervision from J.P.T., A.C.J., and R.D.
All authors contributed to the overall intellectual content of the manuscript, read and edited subsequent drafts, and approved the final version.
We are grateful to the Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry (VACCR) for linking the VACS with the VACCR database and providing us with a dataset containing the linked records.
This study would not have been possible without the VACCR's generous assistance.
There are no conflicts of interest.
This research was supported by the US Veterans Health Administration and by grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U01-AA020790, U24-AA020794, U10-AA013566), National Institute of Mental Health (T32-MH020031, P30-MH062294), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U01-A1069918), National Cancer Institute (F31-CA180775, R01-CA165937, R01-CA173754), and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (3T32-DK007217) of the National Institutes of Health.
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