Tang, Wei
Zhou, Ming
Dorsey, Tiffany H.
Prieto, DaRue A.
Wang, Xin W.
Ruppin, Eytan
Veenstra, Timothy D.
Ambs, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7651-9309
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (ZIA BC 010887)
Article History
Received: 6 September 2018
Accepted: 16 November 2018
First Online: 3 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The collection of biospecimens and the clinical and pathological information was approved by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board for the participating institutions (UMD protocol #0298229). IRB approval of this protocol was then obtained at all institutions (Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital, Mercy Medical Center, and Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD). The research was also reviewed and approved by the NIH Office of Human Subjects Research Protections (OHSRP #2248). All patients provided written informed consent to participate in the study, and the research conformed with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
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