Heeren, A. Marijne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-6058
van Luijk, Iske F.
Lakeman, Joost
Pocorni, Noëlle
Kole, Jeroen
de Menezes, Renée X.
Kenter, Gemma G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7284-3918
Bosse, Tjalling http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6881-8437
de Kroon, Cornelis D.
Jordanova, Ekaterina S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8121-1322
Funding for this research was provided by:
KWF Kankerbestrijding (VU2013-6015)
Article History
Received: 18 March 2019
Accepted: 5 October 2019
First Online: 15 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interests.
: All human tissue samples were retrospectively selected, coded and processed anonymously. The patient samples were used according to the medical ethical guidelines described in the Code for Proper Secondary Use of Human Tissue established by the Dutch Federation of Medical Sciences [CitationRef removed]. The accredited Dutch Medical Research Ethics Committee Leiden-Den Haag-Delft declared that the research is in accordance with the Dutch Medical Treatment Contracts Act and the General Data Protection Regulation. In the context of a retrospective non-interventional study, additional ethical committee approval was not necessary (research protocol registration number B19.030).
: In the context of this retrospective non-interventional study, as declared by the Dutch Medical Research Ethics Committee (research protocol registration number B19.030), informed consent was not required as all data was anonymized and confidentiality was guaranteed.