Nomura, Hisanaga https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-7425
Tsuji, Daiki
Demachi, Ken
Mochizuki, Nobuo
Matsuzawa, Haruki
Yano, Tomonori
Daiko, Hiroyuki
Fujii, Satoshi
Kojima, Takashi
Itoh, Kunihiko
Kawasaki, Toshikatsu
Article History
Received: 23 February 2020
Accepted: 19 July 2020
First Online: 3 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board of the NCC, Japan in March 2017 (2016-384). These patients were consented to be used the clinical information and DNA sample in the National Cancer Center (NCC) Biobank Registry. The study design is displayed on the website for the National Cancer Center Hospital East, providing the relatives of deceased patients the opportunity to decline participation in the current study. 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 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.