Takamatsu, Yuri https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4790-7529
Horimoto, Yoshiya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8935-0768
Miyoshi, Yasuo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8535-4008
Watanabe, Junichiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9226-895X
Kutomi, Goro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4557-5126
Article History
Received: 27 October 2025
Accepted: 22 January 2026
First Online: 31 January 2026
Declarations
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: Junichiro Watanabe (JW) is a Reviewer Board member of the International Journal of Clinical Oncology and a coauthor of this article. To minimize bias, he was excluded from all editorial decision-making related to the acceptance of this article for publication. Yasuo Miyoshi (YM) and JW have received lecture fees from Eisai. All other authors declare no relevant financial or non-financial conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of Juntendo University Hospital (H16-0096-H01) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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: Not applicable.