Chen, Laite
Zhang, Lu
Shi, Lu
Fu, Guosheng
Jiang, Chenyang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Clemson University Department of Public Health internal funding
Article History
Received: 9 May 2020
Accepted: 24 August 2020
First Online: 11 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The research protocol was approved, and the requirement of written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board in Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (AMC IRB 2013–0959).
: As the editorial policies of World Journal of Surgical Oncology states: “In cases where there are no details on individuals reported within the manuscript, consent for publication may not be required.”The de-identified dataset used in this study was obtained from an online platform “FigShare” (ExternalRef removed). Data from FigShare is available under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) which allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy data from FigShare [CitationRef removed].In addition, the research protocol was approved, and the requirement of written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board in Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (AMC IRB 2013–0959) [CitationRef removed].
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.