Banerjee, Sudeep
Corless, Christopher L.
Miettinen, Markku M.
Noh, Sangkyu
Ustoy, Rowan
Davis, Jessica L.
Tang, Chih-Min
Yebra, Mayra
Burgoyne, Adam M.
Sicklick, Jason K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (R01CA226803, K08CA168999, R21CA192072)
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (Mentored Research Award)
Article History
Received: 5 February 2019
Accepted: 23 July 2019
First Online: 30 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained for all study participants, including publication of clinical data. Patient tissue collection, acquisition of clinical data, and conducting experimental procedures on biological samples was approved or exempt by each institutional IRB [UC San Diego Human Research Protections Program Institutional Review Board (IRB) Protocol #090401, NCI Office of Human Subjects Research (OHSR) IRB exemption was granted for work with anonymized annotated human samples, and OHSU IRB exemption was granted for contribution of one patient to the study cohort]. All experiments were conducted in accordance with appropriate regulatory guidelines for use of human tissue. Excess explant tissue was collected for study.
: Written consent for publication of clinical data was obtained for all study participants at each institution.
: JK.S. has research funding from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Amgen Pharmaceuticals and Foundation Medicine. J.K.S. also serves or served as Consultant to the following organizations: Grand Rounds (2015–2018), and Loxo Oncology (2017–2018). These disclosures had no impact on any of the work presented in this manuscript. There are no competing interests to declare by the remaining authors.