Rodriguez-Velazquez, Ariel
Velez, Rosa
Lafontaine, Jean Carlo
Colon-Echevarria, Claudia B.
Lamboy-Caraballo, Rocio D.
Ramirez, Ingrid
Mendoza, Adalberto
Casbas-Hernandez, Patricia
Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo N. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-5339
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (U54CA163071, U54CA163068)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (G12MD007579, U54MD007587)
Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R25GM082406, P20GM103475)
Article History
Received: 18 January 2018
Accepted: 12 November 2018
First Online: 27 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Ponce Health Sciences University (IRB approval number: 151207-PC). Pre-existing and de-identified data was analyzed. Hence, protocol was approved as IRB exempted and no consent was required.
: Not applicable.
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