Xu, Xing http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-7141
Wang, Yao
Bryce, Nicole S.
Tang, Katrina
Meagher, Nicola S.
Kang, Eun Young
Kelemen, Linda E.
Köbel, Martin
Ramus, Susan J.
Friedlander, Michael
Ford, Caroline E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-2309
Hardeman, Edna C.
Gunning, Peter W.
Funding for this research was provided by:
NSW Health (RG171797)
Cancer Institute NSW (15/TRC/1-03)
Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1100202, APP1079866, APP1100202, APP1079866)
Department of Education and Training | Australian Research Council (DP160101623, DP160101623)
Cooperative Research Centres, Australian Government Department of Industry
The Kid’s Cancer Project
The Kid’s Cancer project
Article History
Received: 29 October 2020
Revised: 12 April 2021
Accepted: 22 April 2021
First Online: 12 May 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed with approval from the UNSW Human Research Ethics Committee (Approval # HC15771 and # HC16299). AOVT and CAL study protocols were approved by Alberta Health Services, Research Ethics and the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Office of Medical Bioethics, respectively. These study protocols used retrospective data collection from pathology reports and medical charts and were exempt by the ethics boards from requiring informed patient consent. We also declare that the study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: Digital data are kept on the server of School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney and available from the corresponding author upon request.
: P.W.G. and E.C.H. receive funding from TroBio Therapeutics, a company commercialising anti-tropomyosin drugs. P.W.G. and E.C.H. are directors and shareholders of TroBio. Other authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by an Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Cooperative Research Centre Project (CRC-P) grant to P.W.G. and E.C.H. and grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC grant DP160101623), the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC grant APP1100202, APP1079866) and The Kid’s Cancer Project to P.W.G. and E.C.H.; N.S.M. is supported by the NSW Ministry of Health and UNSW Sydney under the NSW Health PhD Scholarship Program and the Translational Cancer Research Network, a translational cancer research centre program funded by the Cancer Institute NSW (RG171797 and 15/TRC/1-03).