Hong, Soon Auck
Yoo, Su Hyun
Lee, Han Hong
Sun, Der Sheng
Won, Hye Sung
Kim, Okran
Ko, Yoon Ho
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2015R1C1A1A01054591)
The Catholic University of Korea Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital Clinical Research Laboratory Foundation
Article History
Received: 15 November 2017
Accepted: 22 April 2018
First Online: 2 May 2018
Authors’ information
: Soon Auck Hong: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Soonchunhyang Cheonan University Hospital, Cheonan, Republic of Korea.Soo Hyun Yoo: Pathologist, Medical Clinic Laboratory Department of U2Bio Co. Ltd., Seoul, Republic of Korea.Han Hong Lee: Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.Der Sheng Sun: Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.Hye Sung Won: Associate Professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.Okran Kim: Researcher, Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.Yoon Ho Ko: Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Board of Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea. Due to the retrospective nature of the study and the fact that no identifiable information is included, informed consent was not required according to laws of the Institutional Research Ethics Board of Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea. The project was compliance with the Helsinki Declaration.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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