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Authors
Brown, Jacqueline
Stepien, Andrzej J.
Willem, Pascale
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancer Association of South Africa
Medical Research Council of South Africa (None)
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Article History
Received: 9 October 2019
Accepted: 26 March 2020
First Online: 6 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study received ethics approval from the University of the Witwatersrand human research ethics committee, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (Reference number: M090658). These samples were retrospective FFPE samples obtained from the archive of the histopathology department. Samples could not be linked to living individuals and therefore consent could not be obtained. The samples were de-identified for the purpose of this study to preserve patient anonymity in accordance with the regulations of the local ethics committee.
: Consent for publication was waived as this study was a retrospective study performed on archived tissue samples that could not be linked to living individuals.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
