From the *Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital; and †Division of Surgery, Department of Gastroentrology, and ‡Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital; and §Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen Biocenter, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen; ∥Department of Molecular Medicine, MOMA, Aarhus University Hospital; and ¶AROS Applied Biotechnology A/S, Aarhus; and #Departments of Oncology and **Medicine, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Received for publication May 27, 2011; accepted September 23, 2011.
Reprints: Nicolai Aagaard Schultz, MD, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Rigshospitalet, C 2-12-2, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark (e-mail: [email protected]).
The study was supported by grants from the Research Council at Herlev Hospital.
Presented in poster format at the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology, Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, January 22–24, 2010, Orlando, FL, and at the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, June 4–8, 2010, Chicago, IL.
The authors had full access to all the data in the study and had the final responsibility for the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Author Contributions: N.A.S. and I.J.C. have full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis; conception and design: N.A.S., J.S.J., A.R., and M.W; administrative support: N.A.S., J.S.J., T.H., and E.H; provision of study materials or patients: N.A.S., A.R., M.W., F.B., J.S.J., and T.H; collection and assembly of data: N.A.S., A.R., T.H., M.W., and J.S.J; data analysis and interpretation: N.A.S., I.J.C., A.R., T.H., E.H., L.N.P., M.K., and J.S.J. All authors contributed to writing of the manuscript and its final approval.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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