Dar, Asif A.
Patil, Rushikesh S.
Pradhan, Trupti N.
Chaukar, Devendra A.
D’Cruz, Anil K.
Chiplunkar, Shubhada V.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (BT/PR 8245/MED/30/985/2013)
Article History
Received: 1 August 2019
Accepted: 16 February 2020
First Online: 26 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the “Tata Memorial Centre—Institutional Ethics Committee III (ACTREC IEC)” (IEC study number # 105; approved on 07/03/2013). All procedures performed in the study involving human samples were according to the ethical standards and approvals of Institutional Ethics Committee which is guided in its reflection, advice and decision by the ethical principles expressed in the “Declaration of Helsinki” and CFR 45 (US FDA).
: All participants including OSCC patients and HI voluntarily participated in the study. The participants agreed to provide their samples (peripheral blood or tumor tissue collected after surgery) and related data for research purpose and scientific publication after signing written informed consent before sample collection. The format of the consent form was approved by the Institution Ethics Committee (IEC). The peripheral blood of the participants was collected with the help of trained phlebotomists. Tumor tissues of the patients were provided by the tumor tissue repository of ACTREC-Tata Memorial Centre.