Kawashima, Masahiro
Tokiwa, Mariko
Nishimura, Tomomi
Kawata, Yukiko
Sugimoto, Masahiro
Kataoka, Tatsuki R.
Sakurai, Takaki
Iwaisako, Keiko
Suzuki, Eiji
Hagiwara, Masatoshi
Harris, Adrian L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-8409
Toi, Masakazu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Cancer Research UK
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Article History
Received: 16 May 2019
Revised: 7 November 2019
Accepted: 7 November 2019
First Online: 10 December 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to sample collection. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research, Kyoto University Hospital (authorisation number G424). This is also described in the “Methods” section.
: This research was conducted under the support of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare KAKENHI, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology KAKENHI and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. It was also supported by Cancer Research UK and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
: Consent for publication was obtained from all patients prior to sample collection.
: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the supplementary tables. Alternatively, they are also available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.