Murahashi, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9397-4071
Akiyoshi, Takashi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-1412
Sano, Takeshi
Fukunaga, Yosuke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6397-0907
Noda, Tetsuo
Ueno, Masashi
Zembutsu, Hitoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1674-1968
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18K08664, 18K08635)
Article History
Received: 21 October 2019
Revised: 12 May 2020
Accepted: 26 May 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (Tokyo, Japan) and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The reference number was 2013-1003. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKEN, JSPS KAKENHI (18K08635 and 18K08664), and Grant from Daiwa Securities Health Foundation.