Du, Ruofei
Wang, Xin
Ma, Lixia
Larcher, Leon M.
Tang, Han
Zhou, Huiyue
Chen, Changying http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2151-7351
Wang, Tao
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (81773175)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in 2018: (2018M630839)
Article History
Received: 2 September 2020
Accepted: 21 February 2021
First Online: 28 February 2021
Declarations
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: The current study was part of an internal hospital project related to the improvement of the quality of life in cancer patients; the patients’ data we used came from the EMRs, and the data recording is part of the daily work of medical workers, the study was submitted to Ethics Committee of Zhengzhou University, thus, the need for ethics approval was waived by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Ethics Committee of Zhengzhou University. We used the data in EMRs so we do not need participants’ informed consent also. Administrative permissions were obtained from directors of oncology departments and information center to access the raw data from the hospital medical records.
: Not applicable.
: No conflict of interest has been declared by the authors.