Ogawa, Haruki
Abe, Hiroyuki
Yagi, Koichi
Seto, Yasuyuki
Ushiku, Tetsuo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1763-8380
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (21K06882, 23K06458)
The University of Tokyo
Article History
Received: 6 October 2023
Accepted: 27 April 2024
First Online: 9 May 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this study.
: This study was performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki, and the study protocol was approved by the institutional review board (approval number G3521). The requirement to obtain written informed consent was waived because this was a retrospective study using existing pathology slides and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded blocks. Instead, we used an opt-out approach to provide participants with an informed choice about participation.