Effect of immortal time bias on the association between immune-related adverse events and oncological outcomes following immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

• Koichi Tamura,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yukinori Takenaka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ytakenaka@ent.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3135-5635

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• Kiyohito Hosokawa,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Takashi Sato,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Takeshi Tsuda,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hirotaka Eguchi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Masami Suzuki,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Takahito Fukusumi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Motoyuki Suzuki,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hidenori Inohara

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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