Aphivatanasiri, Chaiwat
Li, Joshua
Chan, Ronald
Jamidi, Shirley K.
Tsang, Julia Y.
Poon, Ivan K.
Shao, Yan
Tong, Joanna
To, Ka-Fai
Chan, Siu-Ki
Tam, Fiona
Cheung, Sai-Yin
Shea, Ka-Ho
Tse, Gary M.
Article History
Received: 6 March 2020
Accepted: 17 July 2020
First Online: 1 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have 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. The study was approved, including dispensation from the requirement of patient consent by Joint Chinese University of Hong Kong—New Territories East Cluster clinical research ethics committee (2014.500).
: The samples involved in the current study were retrieved from pathology tissue bank after used for diagnosis. All samples were irreversibly anonymized prior to inclusion of the study. Researchers were blinded from patient data during experimental and statistical procedure. Patient confidentiality has been protected and the study involved minimal risk to the subjects, Therefore, the requirement to obtain written consent has been waived.