Funding for this research was provided by:
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University (Early Phase Clinical Research Support)
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Article History
Received: 8 August 2017
Accepted: 22 September 2017
First Online: 2 October 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Afshin Dowlati received research grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Novartis Pharma and Roche-Peru and consulting role for Ariad pharmaceuticals. Neelesh Sharma received research funding from Incuron during the study and is currently employed by Novartis Pharma. Priyanka Bhateja declares that she has 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 article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.