Yap, Kenneth S. K.
Mehta, Ojas H.
Lau, Wing Fai Eddie
Akhurst, Tim
Warrier, Satish
Heriot, Alexander
Hicks, Rodney J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP110805, APP1053792)
Article History
Received: 24 June 2018
Accepted: 7 November 2018
First Online: 26 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) research committee (ethics-approved protocol number: PMCC 02–51) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.As this is a low risk retrospective study, formal subject consent is not required and an ethics waiver from obtaining informed consent from individual patients was sought and approved.
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: RH is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellowship (APP110805) and Program Grant (APP1053792), all the authors declare that they have no competing interest.
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