Brown, Bernadette http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2851-1809
Young, Jane
Smith, David P.
Kneebone, Andrew B.
Brooks, Andrew J.
Egger, Sam
Xhilaga, Miranda
Dominello, Amanda
O’Connell, Dianne L.
Haines, Mary
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (1011474)
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (1011474)
Article History
Received: 8 October 2017
Accepted: 1 March 2018
First Online: 12 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Royal Prince Alfred Research Ethics Committee approved the CLICC implementation trial (ID: X12-0388 and HREC/12/RPAH/584). Site-specific approval (SSAs) was obtained from the research governance office at each of the nine Sites. Site-specific approval from Cancer Council NSW ethics committee was granted to cover data collection, storage and analysis at Cancer Council NSW. Participating clinicians provided informed written consent.
: Not applicable.
: MX is employed by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA), and in October 2015, MH was appointed to the PCFA Research Advisory Committee, which has provided funds to support this research as part of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia’s partnership project grant scheme (ID: 1011474). AB is the Co-Chair of the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Urology Clinical Network and MH is on the Research Sub-Committee of the Agency for Clinical Innovation Board. This Agency has provided in-kind funds as part of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia’s partnership project grant scheme (ID: 1011474). AK is an investigator on the RAVES [Radiotherapy Adjuvant Vs Early Salvage] Trial (protocol number: TROG.08.03). The contents of this paper are solely the responsibility of the individual authors and do not reflect the views of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia or NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation. JY was supported by a Cancer Institute NSW Academic Leader in Cancer Epidemiology award (08/EPC-1-01). DS was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Training Fellowship (1016598). The other authors declare no support from any organisation for the submitted work, no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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