Pietzke, Matthias
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Arroyo, Salvador Fernandez
Sumpton, David
Mackay, Gillian M.
Martin-Castillo, BegoƱa
Camps, Jordi
Joven, Jorge
Menendez, Javier A.
Vazquez, Alexei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2764-3244
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancer Research (C596/A21140)
Article History
Received: 21 December 2018
Accepted: 20 March 2019
First Online: 24 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: For the healthy controls, diabetes patients and long cancer patients, written informed consent was obtained from all participants as required by the ethics committee of the Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus (Reus, Spain). For the breast cancer cohort, written informed consent was obtained from all participants as required by the ethics committee of the Dr. Josep Trueta Hospital (Girona, Spain) and independent Institutional Review Boards at each site participating in the METTEN study. All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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