Skarping, Ida http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1265-8649
Ellbrant, Julia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3241-1109
Dihge, Looket http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7932-3982
Ohlsson, Mattias http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1145-4297
Huss, Linnea http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8597-9224
Bendahl, Pär-Ola http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8862-1845
Rydén, Lisa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-3130
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Governmental Funding of Clinical Research within the National Health Service Sweden (ALF young researcher Ida Skarping)
the Governmental Funding of Clinical Research within the National Health Service Sweden (ALF young researcher Looket Dihge)
the Stig and Ragna Gorthon Foundation
Lunds Universitet
Region Skåne
Familjen Erling-Perssons Stiftelse
Vetenskapsrådet [Swedish Research Council] (Sweden) (external review),
Lund University
Article History
Received: 13 March 2023
Accepted: 7 January 2024
First Online: 16 January 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Ethical Review Board, Stockholm Department 3 Medicine, committee reference number: 2021–00174). Patients received study information through advertisements in the local press. By using the provided contact information, the patients were allowed to opt out. The ethics committee (Ethical Review Board, Stockholm Department 3 Medicine, committee reference number: 2021–00174) waived the requirement for informed consent and consent for publication. By law, all patients receiving treatment for BC at hospitals are consenting to register in a national registry of cancer. The local department for personal data admission at the hospital (KVB Samråd, Region Skåne, Sweden) granted researchers access, with digital logging, to patients’ digital medical charts. Only authorized users from the principal investigator had access to the NILS web calculator.
: The authors declare no competing interests.