Hara, Ayaka
Koyama-Nasu, Ryo
Takami, Mariko
Toyoda, Takahide
Aoki, Takahiro
Ihara, Fumie
Kobayashi, Masayoshi
Hirono, Seiichiro
Matsutani, Tomoo
Nakayama, Toshinori
Iwadate, Yasuo
Motohashi, Shinichiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9332-3129
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#18H0289, #17K16625, #19K18379)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2020
Accepted: 12 October 2020
First Online: 31 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: Blood samples and surgically resected tumor tissues from all the patients were collected only after obtaining written informed consent. All the procedures involving human participants were approved on July 14, 2016 by the institutional review board of Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine and were conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All the participants consented to providing their peripheral blood or surgically resected tumor tissues and to the use of their specimens and data for research and publication.