Funding for this research was provided by:
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Article History
Received: 19 March 2022
Accepted: 13 August 2022
First Online: 24 August 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
: All the procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the local ethics commission (Kantonale Ethikkommission Bern, Switzerland, 200/14) which waved the need of informed consent for the use of pathology archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The usage of archival FFPE tissue for TMA-based biomarker studies without written consent of the patients was approved by the Cantonal Ethics Commission of the Canton of Bern (KEK 200/14).