Nakamori, Yuna
Takasawa, Akira
Takasawa, Kumi
Kyuno, Daisuke
Ono, Yusuke
Magara, Kazufumi
Nakahashi, Naoya
Sekiguchi, Shohei
Tsuchihashi, Kei
Miyazaki, Akihiro
Osanai, Makoto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1754-252X
Article History
Received: 8 April 2024
Accepted: 8 May 2024
First Online: 21 May 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that the authors have no conflicts of interests.
: The present study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (approval no. 4-1-44) and Institutional Review Board (study no. 312–230, 23–117) of Sapporo Medical University. Tissue specimens that were collected from 204 cases of OSCC during surgical resection performed in Sapporo Medical University Hospital in the period from 2004 to 2020 were used. The Ethics Committee opted to waive the need for written informed consent from patients due to the retrospective nature of the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The researchers who were a part of this study had no access to any information that could identify individual participants during or following the data collection process.
: Not applicable.