Funding
Cancer
SARCOMA, CANCER
Trial funding came from Cancer Research UK (CR UK 09/009), with additional financial support provided as an Investigator-Sponsored Research Grant from Pfizer Limited. Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres (ECMC) funds supported the sample collection. Weston Park Cancer Charity funded sample analysis. The trial was initiated and conducted independently by the trial investigators on behalf of the UK National Cancer Research Network Sarcoma Clinical Studies Group. The funders had no role in trial design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the report. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the trial and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.