Kumagai, Koshi
Hiki, Naoki
Nunobe, Souya
Kamiya, Satoshi
Tsujiura, Masahiro
Ida, Satoshi
Ohashi, Manabu
Yamaguchi, Toshiharu
Sano, Takeshi
Article History
Received: 23 October 2017
Accepted: 7 February 2018
First Online: 12 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Drs. Koshi Kumagai, Naoki Hiki, Souya Nunobe, Satoshi Kamiya, Masahiro Tsujiura, Satoshi Ida, Manabu Ohashi, Toshiharu Yamaguchi, and Takeshi Sano have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: All procedures involving human participants were carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee, and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The entire study was conducted with the approval of the institutional review board at the Cancer Institute Hospital (No. 1737). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.