Chen, Bang-Bin
Lu, Yen-Shen
Yu, Chih-Wei
Lin, Ching-Hung
Chen, Tom Wei-Wu
Wei, Shwu-Yuan
Cheng, Ann-Lii
Shih, Tiffany Ting-Fang
Article History
Received: 24 November 2017
Revised: 2 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
First Online: 16 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: Fu-Chang Hu, Sc.D., kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: All study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported.This study is based on our previous works (Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Apr 15;21(8):1851-8; BMC Cancer. 2016 Jul 13;16:466. NCT01281696).
: • prospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution