Socioeconomic, rural, and insurance-based inequities in robotic lung cancer resections

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Department of Surgery, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA Contributions: (I) Conception and design: L Erhunmwunsee, P Bhandari, PH Ituarte, NS Lui; (II) Administrative support: E Sosa, M Sur; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: L Erhunmwunsee, P Bhandari, PH Ituarte, NS Lui; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: All authors; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: L Erhunmwunsee, P Bhandari, PH Ituarte, NS Lui; (VI) Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors. Correspondence to: Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD. City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. Email: lorettae@coh.org.