Carrara, Guilherme Freire Angotti http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-481X
Evangelista, Adriane Feijo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4731-2082
Scapulatempo-Neto, Cristovam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-6579
Abrahão-Machado, Lucas Faria http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-4479
Morini, Mariana Andozia
Kerr, Ligia Maria
Folgueira, Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9269-8052
da Costa Vieira, René Aloisio http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-9016
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2012/19642-0)
Article History
Received: 24 March 2020
Accepted: 11 September 2020
First Online: 20 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The author Vieira RAC received research grants from FAPESP, but he declares no conflict of interest. Folgueira MAAK received grants from CNPQ, but she declares no conflict of interest. All the other authors (Carrara GFA; Evangelista AF; Scapulatempo-Neto C; Abrahão-Machado LF; Morini MA and Kerr LM) declare no conflict of interest.
: The Barretos Cancer Hospital Ethics Committee approved this study (number 135/2008 from 21/02/2008 and addendum 19/03/2012). All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee (Barretos Cancer Hospital Ethics Committee). They were performed in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: As it was a retrospective study, informed consent was considered not necessary from the local ethics committee. There are global statistics, and the confidentiality of the patients was preserved.
: REMARK recommendations were followed [CitationRef removed].