Opioid use as a potential risk factor for pancreatic cancer in the United States: An analysis of state and national level databases

• Usman Barlass ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Usman Barlass, Ameya Deshmukh

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

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Ameya Deshmukh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Usman Barlass, Ameya Deshmukh

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Midwestern University–CCOM, Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2853-4085

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• Todd Beck,

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

  Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Faraz Bishehsari

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: faraz_bishehsari@rush.edu

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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