Yang, Zhaoting
Zhang, Chengye
Feng, Ying
Quan, Mingji
Cui, Yan
Xuan, Yanhua
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81760531)
Article History
Received: 1 April 2019
Accepted: 27 March 2020
First Online: 15 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research complied with the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Samsung Medical Center (No. 2011-07-122-001). All CRC patients provided written informed consent according to institutional guidelines. Patients were informed that the resected specimens were stored by the hospital and potentially used for scientific research, and that their privacy would be maintained. Follow-up survival data were collected retrospectively through medical record analyses. The human fetus tissue specimens were procured from voluntary pregnancy terminations after surgery and proper consent from donors with the approval of the Institutional Review Board of Yanbian University Medical College (No. BS-13-35).
: Not applicable.
: No potential conflicts of interests were disclosed.