Fujiya, Keiichi
Kumamaru, Hiraku
Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki
Miyata, Hiroaki
Tsuburaya, Akira
Kodera, Yasuhiro
Kitagawa, Yuko
Konno, Hiroyuki
Terashima, Masanori http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2967-8267
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Gastric Cancer Association
Article History
Received: 22 March 2020
Accepted: 4 May 2020
First Online: 21 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Hiraku Kumamaru and Hiroaki Miyata are affiliated with the department of Healthcare Quality Assessment at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine. The department is a social collaboration department supported by National Clinical Database, Johnson & Johnson K.K., and Nipro Corporation. Dr. Kodera reports grants from Taiho Pharma, grants from Chugai Pharma, grants from Takeda, grants from MSD, grants from NIhon Kayaku, grants from Yakult, grants from Lilly Japan, grants from Ono Pharma, grants from Kaken Pharma, grants from Covidien, grants from EA Pharma, grants from Novartis, grants from KCI, grants from Maruho, grants from Daiichi Sankyo, grants from Otsuka, grants from Tsumura, grants from Sawai, personal fees from Taiho Pharma, personal fees from Chugai Pharma, personal fees from Lilly Japan, personal fees from Johnson & Johnson, personal fees from Takeda, personal fees from Yakult, personal fees from Otsuka, personal fees from Ono Pharma, personal fees from Covidien, personal fees from MSD, grants from Bristol, grants from Sanofi, outside the submitted work. Dr. Terashima reports personal fees from Taiho, personal fees from Chugai, personal fees from Ono, personal fees from BMS, personal fees from Yakult, personal fees from Takeda, personal fees from Eli Lilly, personal fees from Pfizer, personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. Drs. Fujiya, Fujiwara, Tsuburaya, Kitagawa and Konno have nothing to disclose.
: This study conforms to the ethical guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration. The use of data from the registry was approved by The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery committee. All patients were informed about the JSGS registry by the hospitals.
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