Ushigome, Mitsunori
Nabeya, Yoshihiro
Soda, Hiroaki
Takiguchi, Nobuhiro
Kuwajima, Akiko
Tagawa, Masatoshi
Matsushita, Kazuyuki
Koike, Junichi
Funahashi, Kimihiko
Shimada, Hideaki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1990-8217
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical and Biological LAboratories
JSPS KAKENHI Grant (JP26462029)
Article History
Received: 13 November 2017
Accepted: 10 April 2018
First Online: 24 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Hideaki Shimada received research Grants from Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Japan. Akiko Kuwajima is an employee of the Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Japan. The other authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest associated with the present study.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients, and the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Chiba Cancer Center (no. 21-26) and Toho University School of Medicine (nos. 22-112 and 22-047). This clinical study has been registered in the UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000014530).