Inoue, Kenichi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2686-8732
Ninomiya, Jun
Saito, Tsuyoshi
Kimizuka, Kei
Kurosumi, Masafumi
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund (23-A-16, 23-A-17, 26-A-4)
Research for Innovative Treatment of Cancer from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H26-applied-general-043,046)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (15ck0106046h0002, 15ck0106049h0002)
Article History
Received: 1 November 2017
Accepted: 25 May 2018
First Online: 20 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All patients provided written informed consent before enrollment. The data were used only for research. The study protocol was approved by the following ethics bodies: for Saitama Cancer Institutional Review Board; for Ninomiya Hospital, Central Ethics Committee at Saitama Cancer Center; for Japanese Red Cross Saitama Hospital, Ethics Committee; and for Kasukabe Medical Center, Ethics Committee.
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