Miura, Satoru http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-6661
Maemondo, Makoto
Iwashima, Akira
Harada, Toshiyuki
Sugawara, Shunichi
Kobayashi, Kunihiko
Inoue, Akira
Nakagawa, Taku
Takiguchi, Yuichi
Watanabe, Hiroshi
Ishida, Takashi
Terada, Masaki
Kagamu, Hiroshi
Gemma, Akihiko
Yoshizawa, Hirohisa
Article History
Received: 27 December 2016
Accepted: 24 January 2017
First Online: 1 February 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Satoru Miura, Shunichi Sugawara, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Yuichi Takiguchi and Akihiko Gemma has received lecture fees from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Makoto Maemondo, Akira Inoue Yuichi Takiguchi has received lecture fees from Chugai and Bristol-Myers Squibb. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was supported by the North East Japan Study Group (NEJSG).
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the institutional review boards of all participating sites.
: All study participants provided written informed consent prior to enrollment.