O’Halloran, Eileen A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4783-6847
Board, Tamsin
Lefton, Max
Devarajan, Karthik
Dotan, Efrat
Meyer, Joshua
Reddy, Sanjay S.
Article History
Received: 5 August 2020
Accepted: 13 November 2020
First Online: 3 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: This retrospective chart review study involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Fox Chase Cancer Center approved this study, Institutional IRB Approval 14-837.
: A Waiver of Informed Consent and HIPAA Authorization was granted because (a) this research is a retrospective chart review project and the research involves no more than minimal risk to the subjects including loss of confidentiality, and (b) the study could not practicably be conducted without access to and use of subjects’ protected health information that consists of those data elements used to create a limited data set, and (c) the study could not practicably be carried out without these waivers, and the waivers will not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects. IRB 14-837 grants permission for the results of the study to be presented at local and national meetings and to be published in a reputable scientific journal.