Xu, Yuan
Kong, Shiying
Cheung, Winson Y.
Bouchard-Fortier, Antoine
Dort, Joseph C.
Quan, Hude
Buie, Elizabeth M.
McKinnon, Geoff
Quan, May Lynn
Funding for this research was provided by:
CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship (201804HI7-406641-297889)
Calgary Center For Clinical Research (n/a)
Article History
Received: 1 October 2018
Accepted: 1 March 2019
First Online: 8 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta – Cancer Committee (HREBA.CC-17-0183). Because this study only used the secondary data of patients, the consent to participate was not required by the ethics review committee.
: Not applicable.
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