Sakata, Junichi
Sasayama, Takashi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5593-9045
Tanaka, Kazuhiro
Nagashima, Hiroaki
Nakada, Mitsutoshi
Tanaka, Hirotomo
Hashimoto, Naoya
Kagawa, Naoki
Kinoshita, Manabu
Nakamizo, Satoshi
Maeyama, Masahiro
Nishihara, Masamitsu
Hosoda, Kohkichi
Kohmura, Eiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (17K10898, 17K10863, 17K10864, 17K16648, 16K20010, 15K10332)
Article History
Received: 18 December 2018
Accepted: 24 January 2019
First Online: 30 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: There are no potential conflicts of interest.
: 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 ethics board (Nos. 1160 and 1518, and No. 1714 in Kobe University Hospital, No. 2016-383 (1521) in Kanazawa University Hospital, No. 14072 in Osaka University Hospital, No 1312245169 in Osaka International Cancer Institute).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.