Kitagawa, Daiki
Ishihara, Ryu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-718X
Yoshii, Shunsuke
Asada, Yuya
Ueda, Tomoya
Kizawa, Atsuko
Ninomiya, Takehiro
Okubo, Yuki
Kawakami, Yushi
Tani, Yasuhiro
Kato, Minoru
Shichijo, Satoki
Kanesaka, Takashi
Yamamoto, Sachiko
Takeuchi, Yoji
Higashino, Koji
Uedo, Noriya
Michida, Tomoki
Fujiwara, Yasuhiro
Article History
Received: 18 November 2024
Accepted: 22 March 2025
First Online: 5 April 2025
Declarations
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: Dr. Ryu Ishihara is an Editorial Board member of Esophagus and a corresponding author of this article. To minimize bias, he was excluded from all editorial decision making related to the acceptance of this article for publication. The other authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Osaka International Cancer Institute (Approval No. 23016). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions.
: We used the opt-out method to obtain informed consent for this study.