Nishimura, Motoki
Tamaki, Nagara
Matsushima, Shigenori
Kiba, Maki
Kotani, Tomoya
Bamba, Chisa
Nakamura, Yasunori
Yamada, Kei
Article History
Received: 23 September 2019
Accepted: 14 February 2020
First Online: 18 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Kei Yamada has received research grants from Doctor-NET Inc., Fukushima SIC Applied Engineering Inc., Nihon Mediphysics Co., Ltd., Fuji Pharma Co., Ltd., and Daiichi-Sankyo Co., Ltd. All other 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 national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. No animals were used in the present study, by any author.
: Based on the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a waiver of informed consent for the retrospective analyses of the anonymized clinical data in this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.