Shimizu, Toshio http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6632-0638
Nishio, Kazuto
Sakai, Kazuko
Okamoto, Isamu
Okamoto, Kunio
Takeda, Masayuki
Morishita, Maiko
Nakagawa, Kazuhiko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Grants-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan (2012-2015))
Astellas Pharma (Tokyo, Japan).
Article History
Received: 8 May 2020
Accepted: 30 June 2020
First Online: 8 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Toshio Shimizu reports research grants from Novartis, Eli Lilly, Daiichi-Sankyo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai, AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Takeda Oncology, Incyte, Chordia Therapeutics, 3D-Medicine, Symbio Pharmaceuticals, PharmaMar, Five Prime, and Astellas Pharma outside the submitted work; and reports advisor role at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Kazuhiko Nakagawa reports research grants from MSD KK, AstraZeneca, ICON Japan, Astellas, Takeda, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Quintiles Inc., Bristol Myers Squibb, CMIC Shift Zero K.K., Taiho Pharmaceutical, Eisai, Parexel International Corp., Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim, Ono Pharmaceutical, Kissei Pharmaceutical, IQVIA, Pfizer, A2 Healthcare Corp, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, EPS Corporation, Abbvie, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Daiichi-Sankyo, SymBio Pharmaceuticals, Bayer, and Merck Serono outside the submitted work; and reports consulting or advisor role at Astellas Pharma Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Isamu Okamoto reports grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, during the study; grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ono Pharmaceutical, MSD Oncology, Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Chugai Pharma; grants from Astellas Pharma, Novartis, and AbbVie; personal fees from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. Masayuki Takeda received honoraria from Novartis Pharma, Chugai Pharma, ONO Pharmaceutical, and Boehringer Ingelheim. Maiko Morishita is an employee of Astellas Pharma. The remaining authors have no potential conflicts of interest to report.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional 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.