Terajima, Daiki
Kojima, Motohiro
Sakashita, Shingo
Taki, Tetsuro
Kinoshita, Takahiro
Ishii, Genichiro
Sakamoto, Naoya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6273-0189
Article History
Received: 20 February 2025
Accepted: 21 May 2025
First Online: 24 July 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest or financial ties associated with this work.
: This study’s protocol was approved by the institutional review board of the National Cancer Center Hospital (approval no.: 2022-188), and conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. The requirement for informed consent was replaced with an opt-out procedure, owing to the retrospective nature of the study.
: All of the patients who participated in this study provided written informed consent before being included.