Wahl, Michael
Anwar, Mekhail
Hess, Christopher P.
Chang, Susan M
Lupo, Janine M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01 CA127612, P01 CA118816)
Article History
Received: 9 January 2017
Accepted: 1 August 2017
First Online: 10 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All patients provided informed consent and the study was approved by our institutional review board (UCSF).All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, and informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Individual patient data is not presented in any form, so no patient consent to publish was obtained.
: Author MW declares that he has no conflicts of interest.Author MA receives consulting fees from Johnson and Johnson.Author CH receives grant funding from Quest Diagnostics, General Electric Healthcare and Cerebrotech, and was funded for travel as an invited speaker for Siemens.Author SC declares that she has no conflicts of interest.Author JL receives grant funding from General Electric Healthcare.
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