Ida, Hanae
Goto, Yasushi
Sato, Jun
Kanda, Shintaro
Shinno, Yuki
Morita, Ryou
Murakami, Shuji
Matsumoto, Yuji
Yoshida, Tatsuya
Horinouchi, Hidehito
Fujiwara, Yutaka
Yamamoto, Noboru
Fukuda, Takahiro
Ohashi, Ken
Ohe, Yuichiro
Article History
Received: 24 December 2019
Accepted: 2 March 2020
First Online: 16 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Yasushi Goto received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Pfizer; Shintaro Kanda received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ono Pharmaceutical and grants from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ono Pharmaceutical; Hidehito Horinouchi received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, MSD, Ono Pharmaceutical and grants from Chugai Pharma, MSD, Ono Pharmaceutical, Taiho Pharmaceutical; Yutaka Fujiwara received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ono Pharmaceutical and grants from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharma, MSD; Noboru Yamamoto received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharma, Eli Lilly, Ono Pharmaceutical, Pfizer and grants from Astellas, AvvVie, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai, Daiichi-Sankyo, Eisai, Janssen Pharma, Kyowa-Hakko Kirin, MERCK, MSD, Novartis, Ono Pharmaceutical, Pfizer, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Takeda; Yuichiro Ohe received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Chugai Pharma, Ono Pharmaceutical and grants from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharma, MSD, Ono Pharmaceutical, Taiho Pharmaceutical. The other authors declare no conflict of interest for this article.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of NCCH (2015–355).
: Since this study was not utilizing human biological specimens, not involving invasiveness, and not involving intervention, formal consent was not required. The study was conducted in compliance with the “Ethical guidelines for medical and health research involving human subjects” [CitationRef removed].