Lee, Yee-Shin
Chin, Yu-Tang
Shih, Ya-Jung
Nana, André Wendindondé
Chen, Yi-Ru
Wu, Han-Chung
Yang, Yu-Chen S. H.
Lin, Hung-Yun http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2824-6419
Davis, Paul J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST-103-2632-B-038-001, MOST-104-2314-B-038-046-MY3)
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST-105-2320-B-038-006)
Article History
Received: 8 November 2017
Accepted: 17 January 2018
First Online: 29 January 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The enrolled patients received no chemotherapy or radiation therapy prior to surgeries and provided the written informed consents to protocol approved by Taipei Medical University-Joint Institutional Review Board (TMU-JIRB) (TMU-JIRB number: N201603078) (Supplementary Material-JIRB Approval, with original certificate in Chinese on page 1 and the translated certificate in English on page 2). All experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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