van Roij, Janneke
Brom, Linda
Youssef-El Soud, Maggy
van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke
Raijmakers, Natasja J. H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Roparun Foundation
Article History
Received: 14 March 2018
Accepted: 21 August 2018
First Online: 13 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The study is conducted according to the declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol has been reviewed by the Medical Ethical Committee of the Dutch Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (METC16.2050). The METC has exempted this observational research from ethical review, accordingly to the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO). Informed consent was obtained from all the participating patients and their informal caregivers. Furthermore, in data collection and analyses procedures, the rules of Dutch Personal Data Protection Act were followed.