Tokuhira, Michihide https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3780-5331
Kimura, Yuta
Sugimoto, Keiji
Nakazato, Tomonori
Ishikawa, Maho
Fujioka, Isao
Takaku, Tomoiku
Iriyama, Noriyoshi
Sato, Eriko
Fujita, Hiroyuki
Hatta, Yoshihiro
Komatsu, Norio
Asou, Norio
Kizaki, Masahiro
Kawaguchi, Tatsuya
Article History
Received: 30 December 2017
Accepted: 31 January 2018
First Online: 13 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: MT received honoraria from Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb. TT, NI, YH, MK, and TK received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Novartis Pharma K.K. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.
: All procedures performed in studies were in accordance with the ethical standards of each institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.