Mizuta, Shuichi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6690-5409
Sawa, Masashi
Tsurumi, Hisashi
Matsumoto, Kana
Miyao, Kotaro
Hara, Takeshi
Takahashi, Takeshi
Sakemura, Reona
Kojima, Hiroshi
Kohno, Akio
Oba, Mari S.
Morita, Satoshi
Sakamoto, Junichi
Emi, Nobuhiko
Article History
Received: 16 March 2018
Accepted: 24 May 2018
First Online: 29 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Masashi Sawa received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Hiroshi Kojima received honoraria from Celgene. Satoshi Morita received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Junichi Sakamoto received honoraria from Tsumura and Chugai Pharmaceutical, and has received consultancy fees from Takeda. Nobuhiko Emi received honoraria from Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Chugai Pharmaceutical. All other authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
: The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Fujita Health University School of Medicine and conformed to the provisions of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All patients provided written, informed consent before participating in the study.