Ozaka, Masato http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-1970
Ishii, Hiroshi
Sato, Tosiya
Ueno, Makoto
Ikeda, Masafumi
Uesugi, Kazuhiro
Sata, Naohiro
Miyashita, Kouichirou
Mizuno, Nobumasa
Tsuji, Kunihiro
Okusaka, Takuji
Furuse, Junji
Article History
Received: 9 March 2018
Accepted: 26 March 2018
First Online: 9 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Masato Ozaka received the honoraria from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Yakult, Bayer, Pfizer and Novartis. Hiroshi Ishii is a member of a Data and safety Monitoring Board of Ono, and received the honoraria from Eisai, Taiho, Chugai and Astellas. Makoto Ueno received honoraria from Abbott, Eli Lilly, Yakult and AstraZeneca and research funding from Eli Lilly, Kowa, Taiho, Yakult, Daiichi-Sankyo, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Zeria, Merck Serono and AstraZeneca. Masafumi Ikeda received research funding from received research funding from GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Yakult, Ono Pharmaceutical, and Eisai. Nobumasa Mizuno has received research grants from AstraZeneca, Eisai, Merck Serono, MSD, NanoCarrier, Taiho Pharmaceutical, and Zeria Pharmaceutical, and speakers bureau honoraria from Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Novartis, Pfizer, Taiho Pharmaceutical, and Yakult Honsha. Takuji Okusaka has had an editor role, research grant, and honoraria from Novartis; reports research grants and honoraria from Pfizer, Taiho, Bayer, Chugai, Eli Lilly and Company, Yakuruto Honsha, Ono Pharmaceutical, AstraZeneca, Merck Serono, Baxter, Nobelpharma Co.; and research grants from Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim, Dainippon Simitomo Pharma, Eisai Co., OncoTherapy Science Inc., Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Shizuoka Industry, Nano Carrier Co., Zeria Pharmaceutical Co. and Glaxo Smith Kline. Junji Furuse received has received honoraria from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Fujifilm, Eisai, Astellas, Yakult, Sumitomo Dainippon, Eli Lilly Japan, and Kyowa Hakko Kirin, and research funding from J-Pharma, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Ono Pharmaceutical, MSD, Janssen and Daiichi Sankyo. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.