Craze, Madeleine L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0793-4167
El-Ansari, Rokaya
Aleskandarany, Mohammed A.
Cheng, Kiu Wai
Alfarsi, Lutfi
Masisi, Brendah
Diez-Rodriguez, Maria
Nolan, Christopher C.
Ellis, Ian O.
Rakha, Emad A.
Green, Andrew R.
Article History
Received: 9 November 2018
Accepted: 16 November 2018
First Online: 23 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors confirm that they do not have any conflict of interests to declare.
: This study was approved by the Nottingham Research Ethics Committee 2 under the title ‘Development of a molecular genetic classification of breast cancer’. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All tissue samples from Nottingham used in this study were pseudo-anonymised and collected prior to 1st September 2006; therefore under the Human Tissue Act informed patient consent was not needed. Release of data was also pseudo-anonymised as per Human Tissue Act regulations. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.