Okamura, Akihiko
Watanabe, Masayuki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0298-1597
Okui, Jun
Matsuda, Satoru
Hamai, Yoichi
Takahashi, Naoki
Sato, Shinsuke
Abe, Tetsuya
Ishida, Hirotaka
Goto, Hironobu
Bamba, Takeo
Kakishita, Tomokazu
Booka, Eisuke
Kitagami, Hidehiko
Kuwabara, Shirou
Kimura, Yasue
Kosumi, Keisuke
Matsumoto, Sohei
Nakajima, Masanobu
Inoue, Seiya
Kitagawa, Hiroyuki
Shibasaki, Susumu
Sadanaga, Noriaki
Takebayashi, Katsushi
Shichinohe, Toshiaki
Kawakubo, Hirofumi
Kakeji, Yoshihiro
Kono, Koji
Kitagawa, Yuko
Takeuchi, Hiroya
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Article History
Received: 15 May 2025
Accepted: 30 August 2025
First Online: 16 September 2025
Declarations
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: The Ethics Committee of all participating facilities approved this study. Written informed consent was waived because all subjects had completed treatment, the study only used anonymized patient information, and designed as a retrospective observational study with no interventions or invasive procedures. Following the Ethics Committee’s study approval, a document was made public to provide information about the research’s goals and the option to opt-out. All procedures were performed following the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions.
: All authors have no conflicts of interest and source of funding regarding this research.