Sato, Daiki
Motegi, Atsushi
Kadota, Tomohiro
Kojima, Takashi
Bando, Hideaki
Shinmura, Kensuke
Hori, Keisuke
Yoda, Yusuke
Oono, Yasuhiro
Zenda, Sadamoto
Ikematsu, Hiroaki
Akimoto, Tetsuo
Yano, Tomonori
Article History
Received: 8 September 2019
Accepted: 12 January 2020
First Online: 21 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (Institutional Review Board of the National Cancer Center Japan; approval no. 2017-434), performed according to the Epidemiological Study Guideline issued by the Japan Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and the ethical principles of the revised Declaration of Helsinki.
: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.