Yen, Tina W. F. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7210-4333
Laud, Purushottam W.
McGinley, Emily L.
Pezzin, Liliana E.
Nattinger, Ann B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
State of Wisconsin Tax Check-Off Program for Breast Cancer Research and the Cancer Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin
Article History
Received: 8 July 2019
Accepted: 13 September 2019
First Online: 21 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Yen has received the above research grant to support this study. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: 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 retrospective database study (PRO000024771) has received ethical approval by the Medical College of Wisconsin/Froedtert Hospital Institutional Review Board #5 as it satisfies requirements of 45 CFR 46.111.
: A waiver of the informed consent process was granted by the institutional IRB as this retrospective database study was deemed “minimal risk”. The waiver of informed consent does not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects and it would not be practical to conduct the research without a waiver.