Tomida, Ryotaro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2518-0197
Miyake, Makito http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9503-7356
Minato, Ryoei
Sawada, Yuichiro
Matsumura, Masafumi
Iida, Kota
Hori, Shunta
Fukui, Shinji
Ohyama, Chikara
Miyake, Hideaki
Hongo, Fumiya
Taoka, Rikiya
Kobayashi, Takashi
Kojima, Takahiro
Matsui, Yoshiyuki
Nishiyama, Naotaka
Kitamura, Hiroshi
Nishiyama, Hiroyuki
Fujimoto, Kiyohide
Hashine, Katsuyoshi
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Article History
Received: 6 September 2021
Accepted: 23 January 2022
First Online: 10 February 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.
: The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and Approved on 23 May 2019 by the Institutional Review Board of each participating institute (Reference Protocol ID: NMU-2217) of the Japan Urological Oncology Group framework. Official names of institutional review board of each collaborating institute are listed here: the Medical ethics committee at Osaka University; the ethics committee of Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine; the Ethics Committee on Clinical Research, Kagoshima University; the Medical Ethics Committee for Kitasato University; the Kyushu University Hospital Ethics Committee; the Ethics Committee Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine Kyoto University; the Ethics committee of The Jikei University School of Medicine for Biomedical Research; the Ethics Committee of Shimane University; the Ethics Committee of Chiba University; the Ethics in Human Subject Research at the University of Tsukuba; the Ethics Committee of University of Toyama; the Ethical committee of Harasanshin Hospital; the Committee of Medical Ethics of Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine; the Independent Ethics Committee of Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine; the Ethical Review Committee of Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine; the Research Ethics Committee of University of Miyazaki; the Medical Ethics Review board of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; the Ethical committee of National Cancer Center Research Institute; the Ethical committee National Cancer Center Research Institute East; the Shikoku Cancer Center Ethics Committee; the Akita University School of Medicine Ethics Committee; Tottori University Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee; the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine Ethics Committee; the Ethics Committee of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine; the Ethics Committee of Nara Prefecture General Medical Center; the Ethics Committee of Kokuho Chuo Hospital; the Ethics Committee of Nara City Hospital; the Ethics Committee of Yamato Koriyama Hospital; the Ethics Committee of Hirao Hospital; the Ethics Committee of Saiseikai Chuwa Hospital.
: An opt-out approach was used to obtain informed consent from the patients and personal information was protected during data collection.