Obara, Wataru http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-9640
Hara, Isao
Kato, Yoichiro
Kato, Renpei
Inoue, Keiji
Sato, Fuminori
Mimata, Hiromitsu
Nakamura, Yusuke
Fujioka, Tomoaki
Article History
Received: 19 November 2017
Accepted: 29 June 2018
First Online: 3 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Y. Nakamura reports receiving a commercial research grant from and has ownership interest (including patents) in OncoTherapy Science, Inc. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed by the other authors.
: This study was approved by the institutional review board at each hospital and was registered with Clinical Trials.gov as NCT 00633204. This study was carried out according to the Helsinki declaration on experimentation on human subjects.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.