Chang, Bin
Meng, Jiao
Zhu, Huimin
Du, Xiang
Sun, Lili
Wang, Lei
Li, Shugang
Yang, Gong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81160316 and 81260104)
Article History
Received: 26 June 2018
Accepted: 28 September 2018
First Online: 14 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Consent to participate was not required because this was a retrospective study of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues obtained after pathological diagnosis. All samples were anonymized before initiating the study. The retrospective study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center with the condition of anonymization (050432–4-1212B). The Institutional Review Board approved the use of tissue blocks and chart reviews.
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