Hattori, Aiji
Kadota, Tomohiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0408-3494
Yamashita, Hiroki
Minakata, Nobuhisa
Watanabe, Takashi
Inaba, Atsushi
Sunakawa, Hironori
Nakajo, Keiichiro
Shinmura, Kensuke
Yano, Tomonori
Article History
Received: 2 March 2026
Accepted: 10 May 2026
First Online: 2 June 2026
Declarations
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: Approval of the research protocol by an Institutional Reviewer Board: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of National Cancer Center Hospital East (Approval number. 2017 − 434).
: T Kadota reports receiving honoraria and personal advisory fees from Olympus outside this study. T Yano reports receiving research grants from Olympus, Fujifilm, HOYA, SHIMADZU, GURDANT HEALTH AMEA Inc., Craif, Astellas, Rakuten Medical, Daiichi Sankyo, Astellas Pharm Global Development, Surg storage outside this work; along with receiving honoraria from Olympus, Fujifilm, and MeijiSeika Pharma; and personal advisory fees from Olympus, HOYA, and PIOLAX Medical Devices outside this study. A Hattori, H Yamashita, N Minakata, T Watanabe, A Inaba, H Sunakawa, K Nakajo and K Shinmura declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Written informed consent was waived, and an opt-out approach was used.
: Not applicable.