Ferdinandus, Justin
Violet, John
Sandhu, Shahneen
Hicks, Rodney J.
Ravi Kumar, Aravind S.
Iravani, Amir
Kong, Grace
Akhurst, Tim
Thang, Sue Ping
Murphy, Declan G.
Williams, Scott
Hofman, Michael S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8622-159X
Article History
Received: 11 December 2019
Accepted: 10 February 2020
First Online: 5 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: MH is the chair of the ANZUP TheraP Study which receives research support from Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) and Endocyte (a Novartis company). Unrelated to this work, he has received honorarium and travel support from Janssen, Ipsen and Sanofi Genzyme. RJH is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Foundation Practitioner Fellowship and receives research support from the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF), Clarity Pharmaceuticals and Ipsen. He holds stock in Telix Pharmaceuticals. SS reports a consulting or advisory role for Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Astra Zeneca, Janssen and Roche; and research funding from research support from the Movember Australia, Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), the Victoria Cancer Agency (VCA), Endocyte, Astra Zeneca, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck Sharp & Dohme.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Peter Mac ethics committee (approval date: 26 August 2015) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, number 12615000912583. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. The study was investigator-initiated and sponsored by the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. All patients signed written informed consent prior to participation in the study. The authors are responsible for the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review and approval of the manuscript. MSH had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.