Ganeshan, Dhakshinamoorthy http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5027-3347
Szklaruk, Janio
Kaseb, Ahmed
Kattan, Ahmad
Elsayes, Khaled M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Supported by the NIH/NCI (P30CA016672)
Article History
First Online: 13 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was supported by MD Anderson Cancer Center Support Grant No. NIH/NCI P30 CA016672 from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
: All authors confirm that there are no relevant conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the Ethical Standards of the Institutional and/or National Research Committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Being a retrospective study, formal consent was not required. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: IRB approval was obtained for a waiver of Informed Consent, because this is a retrospective chart review that involves no diagnostic or therapeutic intervention, as well as no direct patient contact and no patient identifiers. A consent waiver was granted by the Institutional Review Board.