Ruszczyk, Melanie
Zirpoli, Gary
Kumar, Shicha
Bandera, Elisa V.
Bovbjerg, Dana H.
Jandorf, Lina
Khoury, Thaer
Hwang, Helena
Ciupak, Gregory
Pawlish, Karen
Schedin, Pepper
Masso-Welch, Patricia
Ambrosone, Christine B.
Hong, Chi-Chen
Funding for this research was provided by:
US Army Medical Research and Material Command (DAMD-17-01-1-0334)
National Cancer Institute (R03 CA17106, R01 CA100598, P01 CA151135, K22 CA138563, P30 CA072720, P30 CA016056)
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Philip L. Hubbell family
National Cancer Institute's SEER Program (N01PC-2013-00021)
Article History
Received: 12 March 2015
Accepted: 7 November 2015
First Online: 30 November 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
: WCHS protocols for agreement to participate and informed consent were approved by the institutional review boards at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School (ISMMSS, formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine), and the participating hospitals in NYC in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.