Kim, Hongsik
Son, Seung-Myoung
Woo, Chang Gok
Lee, Ok-Jun
Kim, Dae Hoon
Yun, Hyo Yung
Yun, Jieun
Kim, Hee Kyung
Yang, Yaewon
Han, Hye Sook http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6729-8700
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education (2017R1A5A2015541)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2018
Accepted: 13 August 2019
First Online: 3 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to the detailed Standard Operation Procedure of the Institutional Review Board of Chungbuk National University Hospital, studies using leftover specimens that satisfy all of the following conditions may be exempted from patient consent procedures: if the identity of the human bioresource is not verified for all study participants; if the identities of the study participants from which the human bioresource was obtained cannot be determined from the clinical information of the specimen; if the human bioresource is provided to the researcher in a coded form; if the human bioresource supplier has appropriate procedures to prevent leakage of personal information; and if the study is not subject to the regulations related to the Enforcement Rule of Bioethics and Safety Act of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The study, including the retrospective use of archival CB-MEs or tissues for HER2 assessment and consent exemption for study participants, was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Chungbuk National University Hospital (IRB approval number: 2017–01–018-001).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.