Piñero-Madrona, Antonio
Ripoll-Orts, Francisco
Sánchez-Méndez, José Ignacio
Chaves-Benito, Asunción
Gómez-de la Bárcena, Maximiliano Rodrigo
Calatrava-Fons, Ana
Menjón-Beltrán, Salomón
Peg-Cámara, Vicente
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sysmex España S.L.
Article History
Received: 19 December 2019
Accepted: 30 March 2020
First Online: 6 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the protocol and the standard operating procedures (SOPs) that ensure to fulfill the Good Practice Guidelines (GPC) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration. The study protocol was approved by Ethical Review Boards of all participating centers.
: For this observational, retrospective and multicenter study in which the information required by the protocol was collected from the Pathology Anatomy reports of the tumor and axillary nodes, it was not necessary to interview the patient or subject them to any procedure and, consequently, informed consent was not requested, but patient privacy was protected through a dissociated management of the data.