Bando, Hideaki
Kagawa, Yoshinori
Kato, Takeshi
Akagi, Kiwamu
Denda, Tadamichi
Nishina, Tomohiro
Komatsu, Yoshito
Oki, Eiji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-9366
Kudo, Toshihiro
Kumamoto, Hiroshi
Yamanaka, Takeharu
Yoshino, Takayuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sysmex
Article History
Received: 10 December 2018
Revised: 30 March 2019
Accepted: 4 April 2019
First Online: 24 April 2019
Change Date: 25 February 2020
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Competing interests
: H.B. reports research funding from AstraZeneca; T.D. reports research funding from Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim and MSD and honoraria from Chugai Pharmaceutical, Yakult Honsha, and Taiho Pharmaceutical; Y.K. reports the research funds from Merck Serono, Takeda, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly, Sanofi, Yakut Honsha, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Daiichi-Sankyo, Ono, MSD, Kyowa-kirin, Shionogi, Nipro, Dainihon, Eisai, BMS, Bayer Japan, and Pfizer; E.O. has received honoraria for lecturing from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly, Bayer Japan, Yakult Honsha, Merck Serono, Takeda, and Chugai Pharmaceutical; T.K. reports research funding from Yakult Honsha, Chugai Pharmaceutical, and Ono; H.K. reports employment by Sysmex Corporation during the conduct of the study; T.Y. reports research funding from Taiho Pharmaceutical and Takeda, honoraria from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Takeda, Chugai Pharmaceutical, and Boehringer Ingelheim, and advisory role from AstraZeneca, Daiichi-Sankyo, Gilead Sciences, Sysmex, and HUYA Bioscience, and reports research funding from GlaxoSmithKline and Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim and honoraria from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly Japan, and Chugai Pharmaceutical; and Y.K., T.K., T.N., and K.A. report no competing interest.
: This study was approved by the ethics committees at each institution, and all patients provided written informed consent. All procedures related to the study were performed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration.
: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its InternalRef removed.
: This work was funded and sponsored by Sysmex Corporation.