Zhang, Guodong
Lu, Jiaqi
Yang, Moran
Wang, Yiying
Liu, Haiou http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0200-8981
Xu, Congjian
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC1303100)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31570803, 81773090)
Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (2018109)
Article History
Received: 20 February 2019
Accepted: 9 December 2019
First Online: 18 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University (Kyy2016-49, for cohort 1; Kyy2017-27, for cohort 3) and the Ethics Committee of Suzhou Municipal Hospital (2018-0715, for cohort 2).
: All participants included in this study provided written informed consent, which allowed us to use their specimens and data for publication. In this study, patients in cohort 1 and 2 provided informed consent prior to surgery for the use of their paraffin-embedded tissue blocks after a definitive diagnosis, and patients in cohort 3 provided informed consent for use of fresh tissues before surgery.