Nakazato, Tomonori http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-4018
Iriyama, Noriyoshi
Tokuhira, Michihide
Ishikawa, Maho
Sato, Eriko
Takaku, Tomoiku
Sugimoto, Kei-Ji
Fujita, Hiroyuki
Fujioka, Isao
Kimura, Yuta
Aisa, Yoshinobu
Iwanaga, Eisaku
Asou, Norio
Kizaki, Masahiro
Hatta, Yoshihiro
Komatsu, Norio
Kawaguchi, Tatsuya
Article History
Received: 29 April 2018
Accepted: 27 May 2018
First Online: 30 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: MT received honoraria from Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb. NI, TT, YH, MK, and TK received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Novartis Pharma K.K. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests. All authors have no non-financial conflicts of interest to declare.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from the patients. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Yokohama Municipal Citizen’s Hospital.