Tsakiroglou, Anna Maria
Fergie, Martin
Oguejiofor, Ken
Linton, Kim
Thomson, David
Stern, Peter L.
Astley, Susan
Byers, Richard
West, Catharine M. L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0839-3449
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancer Research UK (C147/A25254, C147/A2525, C147/A2525)
Article History
Received: 21 May 2019
Revised: 15 October 2019
Accepted: 21 October 2019
First Online: 6 December 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Tameside & Glossop Local Research Ethics Committee subsequently254 renamed the National Research Ethics Service Committee North West—Greater Manchester East (REC255 reference: 03/TG/076). Patients did not give written consent as approved by the ethics committee due256 to researchers working on anonymised data. The study was performed according to the Declaration of257 Helsinki.
: The work was funded by the Manchester Cancer Research UK Major Centre and supported by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. Catharine West is supported by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre.
: Data and programming scripts are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.