Bae, Kieun
Kim, Jin Hee
Jung, Hyojik
Kong, Sun-Young
Kim, Yun-Hee
Kim, Sunshin
Lee, Geon Kook
Lee, Jin Soo
Lee, Jake June-Koo
Ju, Young Seok
Choi, Yang-Kyu
Yoon, Kyong-Ah http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9823-7393
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019R1A6A3A01091608, NRF-2015R1A2A2A01005812, NRF-2017R1E1A1A01073415)
Korea Health Industry Development Institute (HI16C2387)
Article History
Received: 26 April 2020
Revised: 29 September 2020
Accepted: 16 October 2020
First Online: 18 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of National Cancer Center Korea (IRB No. NCC-2014-0115) and carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All patients provided written informed consent to participate in this study. All animal studies were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the National Cancer Center Research Institute (NCCRI) and Konkuk University (NCC-15-271, NCC-19-496 and KU17167). The NCCRI is a facility accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC International) and abides by the guidelines of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (ILAR) (accredited unit—NCCRI: unit number: 1392).
: The datasets analysed in the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant (NRF-2015R1A2A2A01005812 and NRF-2017R1E1A1A01073415 to K.-A. Yoon, NRF-2019R1A6A3A01091608 to K. Bae) funded by the Korean government. Y.S.J. is supported by Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), which was funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare (HI16C2387).