Okugawa, Yoshinaga https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-5559
Fujiwara, Takumi
Kitajima, Takahito
Tsuboi, Junya
Sasaki, Takeshi
Okita, Yoshiki
Ohi, Masaki
Hashizume, Ryotaro
Imai, Hiroshi
Mochiki, Ikuyo
Tono, Yasutaka
Saito, Kanako
Tamaru, Satoshi
Inoue, Takahiro
Mizuno, Toshiro
Nakatani, Kaname
Toiyama, Yuji
Article History
Received: 24 July 2025
Accepted: 20 November 2025
First Online: 26 November 2025
Declarations
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: Yoshinaga Okugawa received lecture fees from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, and other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. The authors of this manuscript do not include any current Editors or Editorial Board Members of Cancer Science.
: Approval of the research protocol by an Institutional Review Board: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Mie University Hospital (H2024-025), and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent was acquired through an opt-out method, and those who preferred not to share their medical details were not included in the research.