Goto, Risa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5956-3209
Hirota, Yuko
Aruga, Tomoyuki
Horiguchi, Shinichiro
Miura, Sakiko
Nakamura, Seigo
Takimoto, Masafumi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Clinical Research Found of Tokyo Metropolitan Government (H290303015)
Article History
Received: 21 September 2019
Accepted: 5 January 2020
First Online: 13 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have 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. The study was approved by the ethics committee of Showa University Hospital (approval number #1969), and Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital (approval number #1638).
: Participants comprehensively provided their consent stating that the tissue samples from resected specimen may be used for various researches. The ethics committee of Showa University Hospital (approval number #1969), and Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital (approval number #1638) approved the authors’ request for waiver of informed consent based on ethical consideration. All patients have the option to confirm ongoing studies on Showa University and Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital web sites and may choose to opt out of consent at any time. The ethics committee approved this consent procedure.