Greater travel distance to specialized facilities is associated with higher survival for patients with soft-tissue sarcoma: US nationwide patterns

• Tomohiro Fujiwara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Koichi Ogura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• John Healey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: healeyj@mskcc.org

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0802-1186

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