Elumalai, Vinoth Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-4674
Nair, Venu Gopal Achuthan
Devi, Bramanandhan Radhika
Nair, Jagathnath Krishna Kumara Pillai Mo
Article History
Received: 3 October 2021
Accepted: 16 September 2022
First Online: 20 October 2022
Declarations
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: Prior approval from the Institutional Review Board and Human Ethics committee belonging to Regional Cancer Centre Thiruvananthapuram (HEC No. 02/2017 dated 10/03/2017) including Dr Paul Sebastian, Dr P Kusumakumary, Dr K Ramachandran, Dr N Geetha. Prior registration of the study, (Registration no: CTRI/2017/10/010058) all procedures were performed in accordance to the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. We obtained an informed written consent to participate from adult patients and telephonic consent from relatives in this multicentric study (there was no need for consent from parent or legal guardian as pediatric patients were excluded from this study).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.