Omori, Takeshi
Hara, Hisashi
Shinno, Naoki
Yamamoto, Masaaki
Kanemura, Takashi
Takeoka, Tomohira
Akita, Hirofumi
Wada, Hiroshi
Yasui, Masayoshi
Matsuda, Chu
Nishimura, Junichi
Ohue, Masayuki
Sakon, Masato
Miyata, Hiroshi
Article History
Received: 12 June 2022
Accepted: 12 September 2022
First Online: 13 October 2022
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Osaka International Cancer Institute (No. 18033–5). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and its later amendments.
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