Fortis, Sotirios P.
Vaxevanis, Christoforos K.
Mahaira, Louisa G.
Sofopoulos, Michael
Sotiriadou, Nectaria N.
Dinou, Amalia
Arnogiannaki, Niki
Stavropoulos-Giokas, Catherine
Thanos, Dimitris
Baxevanis, Constantin N.
Perez, Sonia A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
GSTR (Grant GER_1968 (ISPEBREAST))
Haegeman-Goossens family (Donation)
Article History
Received: 8 March 2018
Accepted: 26 September 2018
First Online: 1 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of St. Savas Cancer Hospital (IRB-ID 6079/448/10-6-13).
: All prospectively enrolled patients signed a written informed consent, approved by the Review Board at St. Savas Cancer Hospital. All data of other retrospectively analyzed patients were obtained from an anonymized database constructed for the purposes of a previous study [CitationRef removed]. Healthy volunteers presented as blood donors at the Blood Collection and Transfusion Department of Saint Savas Hospital. They fulfilled all requirements for blood donation. Volunteers consented verbally, and no personal information was recorded. All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.