Naito, Yoichi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8490-9064
Kai, Yuichiro
Ishikawa, Takashi
Fujita, Tomoyuki
Uehara, Kanou
Doihara, Hiroyoshi
Tokunaga, Shinya
Shimokawa, Mototsugu
Ito, Yoshinori
Saeki, Toshiaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
research grant from the Public Health Research Foundation
Article History
Received: 22 December 2017
Accepted: 7 August 2019
First Online: 12 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Toshiaki Saeki has received speaker honorarium from Novartis and financial support for educational programs from Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Eisai Co., Ltd. Yoichi Naito, Yuichiro Kai, Takashi Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Fujita, Kanou Uehara, Hiroyoshi Doihara, Shinya Tokunaga, Mototsugu Shimokawa, and Yoshinori Ito have declared no conflict 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.