Nomograms predicting long-term survival in patients with invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas: A population-based study
Jia-Yuan Wu, Hui-Lai Miao, Department of Clinical Research, the Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, Guangdong Province, China
Yu-Feng Wang, Huan Ma, Sha-Sha Li, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524023, Guangdong Province, China
Hui-Lai Miao, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, Guangdong Province, China
Hui-Lai Miao, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524003, Guangdong Province, China
Author contributions: Wu JY and Wang YF contributed equally to this work. All authors helped to performed the research; Wu JY contributed to manuscript writing, data extraction, and data analysis; Wang YF contributed to manuscript writing, drafting, conception and design; Ma H contributed to manuscript writing, data collection, and statistical analysis; Li SS contributed to manuscript writing, statistical software, and data analysis; Miao HL contributed to study design, manuscript writing, drafting, conception and design.
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81702270; the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong, No. 2015A030313827; The Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University Clinical Research Program, No. LCYJ2018C012.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because this study used a public database with anonymous clinical data and the patients’ personal privacy information was not available.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: The relevant data in this study can be obtained in the SEER database.
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Corresponding author: Hui-Lai Miao, MD, Professor, Department of Clinical Research, the Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, No. 57 South of Renmin Avenue, Zhanjiang 524001, Guangdong Province, China. 627225370@qq.com
Received: November 7, 2019
Peer-review started: November 7, 2019
First decision: December 7, 2019
Revised: January 6, 2020
Accepted: January 11, 2020
Article in press: January 11, 2020
Published online: February 7, 2020
