Ueda, Kosuke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8154-6616
Kurata, Hiroki
Murakami, Yoji
Minato, Akinori
Shiota, Masaki
Nakanishi, Shotaro
Kiyoshima, Keijiro
Inoue, Toru
Kumagae, Hisaji
Irie, Shinichiro
Noguchi, Mitsuru
Tatarano, Shuichi
Matsuzaki, Hiroshi
Tokuda, Yuji
Sawada, Atsuro
Abe, Tatsuro
Oshiro, Yoshinori
Harada, Shuji
Igawa, Tsukasa
Article History
Received: 2 October 2025
Accepted: 22 November 2025
First Online: 2 December 2025
Declarations
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: Kosuke Ueda reported receiving honoraria from MSD K. K. Akinori Minato reported receiving honoraria from Astellas Pharma Inc, Merck Biopharma Co. Ltd., MSD K.K., and Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K. No other disclosures were reported.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Review Committee of Kurume University School of Medicine (approval number: 23227) and the ethics committees of each participating institution. Given the retrospective nature of the study, informed consent was obtained via an opt-out mechanism, as described on each institution’s website. Clinical data were retrospectively collected from medical records and analyzed.