Ho, Hsiang-Ling
Chou, Teh-Ying
Yang, Shung-Haur
Jiang, Jeng-Kai
Chen, Wei-Shone
Chao, Yee
Teng, Hao-Wei http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-3422
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taiwan Clinical Oncology Research Foundation
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOHW107-TDU-B-211-114019)
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (107DHA0100381, 108DHA0100103)
Yen Tjing Ling Medical Foundation (CI-108-19)
Article History
Received: 12 February 2019
Accepted: 21 May 2019
First Online: 25 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors Hsiang-Ling Ho, Teh-Ying Chou, Shung-Haur Yang, Jeng-Kai Jiang, Wei-Shone Chen, Yee Chao, and Hao-Wei Teng declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This retrospective study was conducted using data from Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan and under the guidelines of the Declarations of Helsinki; it was approved by the Human Subjects Protection Offices at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. The medical residual samples of the patients with CRC were acquired from the residual sample bank of Taipei Veterans General Hospital. VGHIRB waived the requirement for the use of an informed consent form.
: Informed consent was not obtained prior to analysis in this study (VGHIRB waived the requirement for the use of an inform consent form).