Herden, Jan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1667-5200
Weissbach, Lothar
Article History
Received: 23 November 2017
Accepted: 3 January 2018
First Online: 12 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Jan Herden and Lothar Weissbach declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The HAROW study was approved by the ethics committee of the Bavarian State Board of Physicians. The study was registered under study ID 479 at the DKSR (German Cancer Study Registry; February 2008). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of the State Chamber of Medicine in Bavaria and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.