A text-mining approach to obtain detailed treatment information from free-text fields in population-based cancer registries: A study of non-small cell lung cancer in California

• Frances B. Maguire ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frances B. Maguire, Cyllene R. Morris, Arti Parikh-Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fbmaguire@ucdavis.edu

  Affiliations California Cancer Reporting and Epidemiologic Surveillance Program, Institute for Population Health Improvement, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America, University of California Davis, Graduate Group in Epidemiology, Davis, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8490-6229

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• Cyllene R. Morris ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frances B. Maguire, Cyllene R. Morris, Arti Parikh-Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Cancer Reporting and Epidemiologic Surveillance Program, Institute for Population Health Improvement, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Arti Parikh-Patel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frances B. Maguire, Cyllene R. Morris, Arti Parikh-Patel

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Cancer Reporting and Epidemiologic Surveillance Program, Institute for Population Health Improvement, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Rosemary D. Cress ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Theresa H. M. Keegan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Center for Oncology Hematology Outcomes Research and Training (COHORT) and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Chin-Shang Li ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Nursing, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Patrick S. Lin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Oncology Hematology Outcomes Research and Training (COHORT) and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Kenneth W. Kizer

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations California Cancer Reporting and Epidemiologic Surveillance Program, Institute for Population Health Improvement, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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