Bun, Seiko
Yunokawa, Mayu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7354-6977
Tamaki, Yoshiko
Shimomura, Akihiko
Shimoi, Tatsunori
Kodaira, Makoto
Shimizu, Chikako
Yonemori, Kan
Fujiwara, Yasuhiro
Makino, Yoshinori
Terakado, Hiroyuki
Tamura, Kenji
Article History
Received: 24 July 2017
Accepted: 15 January 2018
First Online: 25 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Fujiwara received a grant and lecture fees from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and grants and lecture fees from The Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japan, all during the conduct of the study. He also received the following outside the scope of the submitted work: lecture fees from Astra Zeneca KK; lecture fees from Eisai Co., Ltd.; lecture fees from Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; grants from Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; grants from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; grants and lecture fees from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; grants and lecture fees from Eli Lilly Japan KK; grants and other remuneration from Eli Lilly Japan KK; and lecture fees from Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: This was a single-center, retrospective study that was performed with the approval of the National Cancer Center Institutional Review Board (No. 2014-389) in accordance with the guidelines on medical and epidemiological research.