Vuolukka, Kristiina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9067-0566
Auvinen, Päivi
Palmgren, Jan-Erik
Aaltomaa, Sirpa
Kataja, Vesa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instrumentariumin Tiedesäätiö (Unrestricted research grant)
Finnish Society of Oncology (Unrestricted research grant)
Article History
Received: 11 November 2019
Accepted: 13 May 2020
First Online: 20 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: A verbal informed consent has been obtained from each patient before the treatment and the consent has been documented into the patient health records. For purposes of retrospective analyses of patient data, individual informed consents are not required in Finland. Thus this study has been performed according to the current research legislation and the study has been approved by the ethics committee of the Northern Savo Hospital District with the reference number of 73/13.02.00/2015.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.