Karivedu, Vidhya http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3109-8410
Agarwal, Rishi
Haque, Sulsal Ul
Thapa, Bicky
Fakhrejahani, Farhad
Fu, Pingfu
Videtic, Gregory M. M.
Sadraei, Nooshin Hashemi
Article History
Received: 23 September 2018
Accepted: 16 April 2019
First Online: 29 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No funding was received for this study.
: During the conduct of this study and manuscript preparation, Nooshin Hashemi Sadraei served on a scientific advisory board was a speaker at Genentech and received research support at Merck. Vidhya Karivedu, Rishi Agarwal, Sulsal Ul Haque, Bicky Thapa, Farhad Fakhrejahani, Pingfu Fu, and Gregory Videtic declare that they have no conflict 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. For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: Statement of informed consent was not applicable since the manuscript does not contain any patient data. A waiver of informed consent was obtained by the IRB to complete this retrospective study.