Kitagawa, Daiki
Yoshii, Shunsuke
Ishihara, Ryu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-718X
Mori, Hitoshi
Tani, Yasuhiro
Okubo, Yuki
Asada, Yuya
Ueda, Tomoya
Kizawa, Atsuko
Ninomiya, Takehiro
Ando, Yoshiaki
Tanabe, Gentaro
Fujimoto, Yuta
Kato, Minoru
Shichijo, Satoki
Kanesaka, Takashi
Yamamoto, Sachiko
Higashino, Koji
Uedo, Noriya
Kitamura, Masanori
Honma, Keiichiro
Michida, Tomoki
Fujiwara, Yasuhiro
Article History
Received: 26 September 2025
Accepted: 18 December 2025
First Online: 7 January 2026
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Osaka International Cancer Institute on October 18, 2023 (approval No. 23155). All the 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.
: 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.