Yamaguchi, Toshifumi
Takashima, Atsuo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8456-1248
Nagashima, Kengo
Terashima, Masanori
Aizawa, Masaki
Ohashi, Manabu
Tanaka, Ryo
Yamada, Tatsuya
Kinoshita, Takahiro
Matsushita, Hisayuki
Ishiyama, Koshiro
Hosoda, Kei
Yuasa, Yasuhiro
Haruta, Shusuke
Kakihara, Naoki
Nishikawa, Kazuhiro
Yunome, Gen
Satoh, Taroh
Fukagawa, Takeo
Katai, Hitoshi
Boku, Narikazu
Article History
Received: 19 June 2020
Accepted: 21 October 2020
First Online: 11 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Atsuo Takashima received a research grant from Taiho and Ono, and honoraria from Taiho, Ono, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, outside the submitted work. Dr. Kengo Nagashima reports personal fees from Pfizer R&D Japan G.K., and personal fees from Toray Industries, Inc., outside the submitted work. Dr. Masanori 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, and personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. Dr. Kazuhiro Nishikawa reports personal fees from Chugai, personal fees from Taiho, personal fees from Yakult, personal fees from Eli Lilly, personal fees from EA Pharma, personal fees from Ono, and personal fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, outside the submitted work. Dr. Satoh reports grants, personal fees from Ono Pharmaceutical, grants, personal fees, and other from Chugai Pharmaceutical, grants, personal fees, and other from Yakult Honsha, grants and personal fees from Eli Lilly, grants and personal fees from MSD, grants from Giliad Sciences, grants from Palexell, grants and personal fees from Bristol Myers Squib, grants and personal fees from Astellas, grants from Daiichi Sankyo, grants and personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical, personal fees from TakaraBio, and personal fees from Sanofi-Aventis, outside the submitted work. Dr. Narikazu Boku received research grants from Taiho and Ono, and honoraria from Taiho, Ono, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, outside the submitted work. All remaining authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
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