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Authors
Villariba-Tolentino, Carmina
Cariño, Ana Maria
Notarte, Kin Israel
Macaranas, Imee
Fellizar, Allan
Tomas, Rock Christian
Angeles, Lara Mae
Abanilla, Lorenzo
Lim, Antonio
Aguilar, Ma. Kristina Carmela
Albano, Pia Marie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-8819
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Commission on Higher Education
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Article History
Received: 25 April 2021
Accepted: 8 July 2021
First Online: 23 July 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: All procedures were performed 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. Ethical clearance was obtained from the Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center (MMMH-MC; Protocol No. MMMH-RERC-17-013) in Batac, Philippines and University of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH; Protocol No. IRB-2018-04-058-IS) in Manila, Philippines prior to specimen retrieval.
: Written informed consent from the patients or their legal guardians had been waived by the Research Ethics Review Committees (RERC) of the hospital study sites since the study was restricted to the use of archived FFPE specimens and did not involve additional invasive procedures nor pose risk or harm to subjects. Clinical data of patients were retrieved from the medical records of the hospital study sites.
: Publication of the results of this work has been approved by the RERC of the hospital study sites while maintaining the identity of the owners of the FFPE samples confidential.
