van Dooijeweert, Carmen
van Diest, Paul J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-2745
Willems, Stefan M.
Kuijpers, Chantal C. H. J.
Overbeek, Lucy I. H.
Deckers, Ivette A. G.
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Quality Foundation of the Dutch Association of Medical Specialists
Article History
Received: 14 September 2018
Accepted: 3 December 2018
First Online: 11 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Authors CD (1), CK (4), LO (5), and ID (6) declare no conflict of interest. Author PD (2) received the SKMS research grant. Author SW (3) is medical advisor for Roche, Pfizer, MSD, AstraZeneca, and Cergentis and received unrestricted research grants from Roche, Pfizer, MSD, and AstraZeneca.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the scientific and privacy committee of PALGA (the nationwide registry of histo- and cytopathology in the Netherlands). As this study was performed retrospectively on anonymised data, and did not involve subjecting patients to anything, consent from the ethics committee was not required according to the Dutch law. All data were retrieved and handled in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
: All data from the PALGA database are pseudonymized by a trusted third party (ZorgTTP, Houten, the Netherlands). We only ever received fully anonymised data. Data of patients who object against the scientific use of their (anonymised) data are not included in the PALGA database. Therefore, waiver of informed consent is applicable.