Amanatullah, Derek F.
Tamaresis, John S.
Chu, Pauline
Bachmann, Michael H.
Hoang, Nhat M.
Collyar, Deborah
Mayer, Aaron T.
West, Robert B.
Maloney, William J.
Contag, Christopher H.
King, Bonnie L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
California Breast Cancer Research Program (201B-0141)
METAvivor Foundation
Chambers Family Fund
National Institutes of Health (5R01CA172895-02)
National Institutes of Health (P30CA124435)
Article History
Received: 22 May 2017
Accepted: 16 October 2017
First Online: 15 November 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was obtained by the Stanford University Internal Review Board (IRB). All discarded surgical specimens and patient medical record information, including diagnoses and disease history (obtained from the STRIDE database by Research IT, Stanford Medicine), were collected under IRB Protocol # 38625, with a Waiver of Consent, in accordance with regulations of the Stanford University Research Compliance Office.
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