Liu, Yang
Baba, Yoshifumi
Ishimoto, Takatsugu
Tsutsuki, Hiroyasu
Zhang, Tianli
Nomoto, Daichi
Okadome, Kazuo
Yamamura, Kensuke
Harada, Kazuto
Eto, Kojiro
Hiyoshi, Yukiharu
Iwatsuki, Masaaki
Nagai, Yohei
Iwagami, Shiro
Miyamoto, Yuji
Yoshida, Naoya
Komohara, Yoshihiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-0846
Ohmuraya, Masaki
Wang, Xiaoming
Ajani, Jaffer A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9946-0629
Sawa, Tomohiro
Baba, Hideo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3474-2550
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H04273, 17K19702, and 17KK0195, 18H02694, 18K19586)
Article History
Received: 23 February 2020
Revised: 23 September 2020
Accepted: 11 November 2020
First Online: 10 December 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kumamoto University (Permission number: 1364). Written informed consent was obtained from each patient. Our study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The data sets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: H.B. is a member of the Editorial Board of the <i>British Journal of Cancer</i>.
: This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI, grant numbers 18H02694 and 18K19586 (to H.B.) and 17H04273, 17K19702, and 17KK0195 (to Y.B.).