Sathasivam, Hans Prakash
Kist, Ralf http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-5693
Sloan, Philip
Thomson, Peter
Nugent, Michael
Alexander, John http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3973-6501
Haider, Syed http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6685-5480
Robinson, Max http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4491-6865
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health Malaysia.
Article History
Received: 18 November 2020
Revised: 6 April 2021
Accepted: 16 April 2021
First Online: 10 May 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed with approval from a Health Research Authority (UK) Research Ethics Committee (North East—Tyne and Wear South Research Ethics Committee; NRES Committee North East—Sunderland 11/NE/0118) and complies with UK legislation and guidelines. Patients were not recruited to the study and therefore individual patient consent was not sought. Link-anonymised patient tissue samples, surplus to diagnostic requirements, were analysed in accordance with the terms of the ethical approval. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available atExternalRef removed.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: H.P. Sathasivam was supported by scholarship from Ministry of Health Malaysia. S.H. is supported by Breast Cancer Now as part of Programme Funding to The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre.