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Article History

Received: 27 May 2024

Accepted: 20 September 2024

First Online: 10 October 2024

Change Date: 23 November 2024

Change Type: Update

Change Details: The original online version of this article was revised to add funding information.

Change Date: 28 November 2024

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-024-01570-x

Declarations

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: Hisato Kawakami has been a consultant for Astellas Pharma Inc., and Daiichi Sankyo; received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Teijin Pharma Ltd, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., GlaxoSmithKline K.K., Bayer Yakuhin Ltd, MSD K.K., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Merck Biopharma Co., Ltd., Yakult Pharmaceutical Industry, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Nippon Kayaku Co. Ltd; and received research funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Ltd., Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai and Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals. Koki Nakanishi has received honoraria from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Ono Pharmaceutical, Daiichi Sankyo and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Akitaka Makiyama has been a consultant for Lilly Japan and received honoraria from Lilly Japan, Chugai Pharma, Takeda, Daiichi Sankyo, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Ono Pharmaceutical and Bristol-Myers Squibb Japan. Satoshi Morita reports honoraria from AstraZeneca Japan, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharma, Lilly Japan, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim, Ono Pharmaceutical, Pfizer and Eisai, research funding from Eisai and is one of the statistical editors for Gastric Cancer. Yukiya Narita has been a consultant for Daiichi Sankyo/AstraZeneca; been on the speakers’ bureau of Ono Pharmaceutical, Lilly, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Daiichi Sankyo/AstraZeneca; and research funding from Ono Pharmaceutical, Daiichi Sankyo/AstraZeneca and Astellas Pharma. Naotoshi Sugimoto reports research funding from MSD, Ono Pharmaceutical, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Lilly Japan, Daiichi Sankyo, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, Chugai Pharma, BeiGene, Solasia Pharma, Astellas Pharma and Eisai. Keiko Minashi reports research funding from Ono Pharmaceutical, MSD, Astellas Pharma, BeiGene, Amgen and Daiichi Sankyo/UCB Japan. Yasuhiro Kodera has been a consultant for Daiichi Sankyo; received honoraria from Chugai Pharma, Yakult Honsha, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Ono Pharmaceutical, MSD K.K, Tsumura & Co., Daiichi Sankyo, Nippon Kayaku, Lilly Japan, Miyarisan Pharmaceutical, Olympus, AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Edwards Lifesciences and Covidien; research funding from Chugai Pharma, Daiichi Sankyo, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Abbott Japan, Lilly Japan, Kaken Pharmaceutical, Tsumura & Co., Covidien, Nippon Kayaku, Shionogi, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, TOA Pharmaceuticals, AbbVie, EA Pharma, Pfizer and Otsuka and is the Editor-in-Chief of Gastric Cancer. Hiroki Kume, Keita Yamaguchi and Wataru Hashimoto are employees of Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd., Japan. Kei Muro has been a consultant or served as an adviser for Chugai Pharma, AstraZeneca, Ono Pharmaceutical, Amgen, Solasia Pharma; has received honoraria from Takeda, Chugai Pharma, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Lilly, Ono Pharmaceutical, Bayer, Sanofi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Daiichi Sankyo/UCB Japan, Ono Pharmaceutical, MSD, Daiichi Sankyo, Pfizer, Sanofi, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Astellas Pharma, Eisai, Chugai Pharma, Amgen, Novartis and Merck KGaA. Hirotaka Konishi, Motohiro Imano and Rin Inamoto have nothing to disclose.

: 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 later versions. The study protocol was approved by Nagoya University Bioethics Review Board (approval no. 2022–0170).

: Informed consent was obtained from all patients; however, opt-out registration was permitted for patients from whom it was difficult to obtain written informed consent for a variety of reasons.