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This work was supported by the Stanford Cancer Institute (to S. Glaser), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (grant number R01 MD007012 to M. Cullen and L. Palaniappan), and the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences 1-KL2-TR-001444 (to C. Thompson). The collection of cancer incidence data used in this study was supported by the California Department of Health Services as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885; the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program under contract HHSN261201000140C awarded to the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, contract HHSN261201000035C awarded to the University of Southern California, and contract HHSN261201000034C awarded to the Public Health Institute; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Program of Cancer Registries, under agreement #1U58 DP000807-01 awarded to the Public Health Institute.

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    Scarlett Lin Gomez, Meg A. McKinley, Rita Leung, Iona Cheng, Christina A. Clarke & Sally L. Glaser

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    Scarlett Lin Gomez, Christina A. Clarke, Theresa H. M. Keegan & Sally L. Glaser

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  7. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Theresa H. M. Keegan

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Gomez, S.L. et al. (2016). Cancer Incidence and Mortality Among Filipinos in the USA and the Philippines: Patterns and Trends. In: Wu, A., Stram, D. (eds) Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41118-7_3

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