Ethics approval and consent to participate
This study was based on a prospective non-interventional research on BM that registered in ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02278016) and was approved by the ethics committee of Xijing Hospital (KY20140916-3). All procedures involving the patients complied with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
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