All experimental procedures were ethically approved (Ethical approval 02265.01/CEEA-IC 118).
The study was ethically approved by the local research ethics committee approval under the National Institute for Health Research NIHRRespiratoryory Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) at the Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service (NHS) trust (10/H0504/9).
Study scientific approval was obtained from the urology department scientific board and ethically approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University (that conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki).
The HBRC is ethically approved (North West 5 Research Ethics Committee, Haydock Park; Ref 09/H1010/75) and so samples may be released to this study without the requirement for project-specific ethical approval.
The tissue sample is being held for use in an ethically approved research project or study, or where approval is pending.
Under the HT Act a licence is not required to store human tissue for research if: The tissue sample is being held for use in an ethically approved research project or study, or where approval is pending.
SCOPE1 has been ethically approved by the Research Ethics Committee for Wales and has approval from the Medicines and Health Care Product Regulatory Agency to be conducted in the UK.
NEOSCOPE has been ethically approved by the Research Ethics Committee for Wales and has approval from the Medicines and Health Care Product Regulatory Agency to be conducted in the UK.
FRAGMATIC has been ethically approved by the Research Ethics Committee for Wales and has approval from the Medicines and Health Care Product Regulatory Agency to be conducted in the UK.
Ethical approval at The University of Western Ontario was included under the ethically approved umbrella of the DELPHI Project.
