Blomstrand, Hakon http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-0278
Scheibling, Ursula
Bratthäll, Charlotte
Green, Henrik
Elander, Nils O.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Futurum - Akademin för Hälsa och Vård, Region Jönköpings läns (695491)
Forskningsrådet i Sydöstra Sverige (751541)
Cancerfonden
Linköpings Universitet (LIO-697991, LIO- 707011, and LIO-697461)
Article History
Received: 14 August 2018
Accepted: 21 December 2018
First Online: 8 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Regional Ethics Review Board in Linköping (diary number 2017/110–31). Based on the retrospective and non-interventional nature of the study, the absence of publication of individual data, and the fact that the vast majority of patients were either dead or in end of life by the time of data collection, the Ethics board did not consider it possible or necessary to obtain written informed consent.
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