Yoon, Chan Jin
Chang, Mee Soo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0948-799X
Kim, Dong Ha
Kim, Won
Koo, Bo Kyung
Yun, Sung-Cheol
Kim, Sung Han
Kim, Yang Soo
Woo, Jun Hee
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education (2016R1D1A1B01010316)
Article History
Received: 4 November 2019
Accepted: 8 March 2020
First Online: 23 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exists.
: This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Seoul National University Boramae Hospital under conditions of anonymity (IRB No. 20140204/26-2014-13/022). All human tissue specimens were obtained during diagnostic and therapeutic surgery. This study was performed using the stored paraffin blocks containing tissue samples after the pathologic diagnosis, and all of the samples were anonymized before the study.
: Complying with the Bioethics and Safety act fully revised and effective February 1, 2013 in Republic of Korea, participants undergone surgery after February 1, 2013 are supposed to provide the informed consent for the study using paraffin block-embedded tissues. In this study, the patients undergone surgery before February 1, 2013 did not submit the informed consent according to the Bioethics and Safety act of the time.
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