Hou, Lei
Jiang, Jingmei
Liu, Boqi
Han, Wei
Wu, Yanping
Zou, Xiaonong
Xue, Fang
Chen, Yuanli
Zhang, Biao
Pang, Haiyu
Wang, Yuyan
Wang, Zixing
Hu, Yaoda
Li, Junyao
Funding for this research was provided by:
UICC International Cancer Technology Transfer Fellowship (ICR/13/073/2013 UICC)
Article History
Received: 31 January 2019
Accepted: 15 March 2019
First Online: 11 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Retrospective information collected was limited to smoking exposure only, and oral informed consent for this study, without any intervention, was obtained. The data accessed from the survey was de-identified. It was recognized that the right and the welfare of the subjects in this study were adequately protected; the potential benefits from this study and the potential risks to subjects were within a reasonable range. We retrospectively obtained the ethical approval from the INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD of Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences that reviewed the proposed use of human subjects.
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