Generalizability of Trial Results to Elderly Medicare Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors (Alliance 70802)

Funding sources were not involved in the design, collection, analyses, interpretation of the data, drafting of the manuscript, nor the decision to submit the manuscript to this journal. The content of this manuscript is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute. The study funders had no role in the design of the study, the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data, the writing of the manuscript, nor the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. We would like to acknowledge Dr. Joan Warren, an NCI Population Science Investigator who arranged the linkage of Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results data to Medicare data and has remained an invaluable asset to researchers using these data. We would like to acknowledge the expert programming skills of Ms. Laurie Meneades within the Department of Health Care Policy, whose talent and scientific insights were great additions to the project.