Kiguchi, Toru http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-4798
Yamaguchi, Masaki
Takezako, Naoki
Miyawaki, Shuichi
Masui, Koichi
Ihara, Yuichiro
Hirota, Masao
Shimofurutani, Naoko
Naoe, Tomoki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Article History
Received: 20 May 2021
Accepted: 28 September 2021
First Online: 22 October 2021
Declarations
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: Toru Kiguchi reports grants and personal fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., MSD Co., Ltd., Astellas Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd., Novartis Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Janssen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Celgene Co., Ltd., SymBio Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; personal fees from Asahi Kasei Pharma Co., Ltd., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Pfizer Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from Daiichi Sankyo Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Teijin Co., Ltd., Sanofi K.K., Ltd., Celltrion, Inc., outside the submitted work. Shuichi Miyawaki reports personal fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Astellas Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. outside the submitted work. Tomoki Naoe reports grants and personal fees from Pfizer Co. Ltd., Astellas Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Fujifilm, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; grants from Sumitomo Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. outside the submitted work. Koichi Masui, Yuichiro Ihara, Masao Hirota, and Naoko Shimofurutani are employees of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan. Masaki Yamaguchi, and Naoki Takezako report nothing to disclosure.
: The study was conducted following the ethical principles originating in or derived from the Declaration of Helsinki, Good Clinical Practice guidelines, and the laws of applicable authorities. The study was designed and conducted by the sponsor (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) in collaboration with the principal investigators. The sponsor monitored study conduct, collected the data, and performed the statistical analyses. All authors reviewed the data and confirmed the integrity of the analyses.
: The study protocol and informed consent form were approved by the institutional review board at each participating study site. All patients gave written informed consent before initiation of any study-specific procedures.
: Not applicable as no patient-specific data were included in this article.