Murakami, Naoya https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0660-9987
Kobayashi, Kazuma
Shima, Satoshi
Tsuchida, Keisuke
Kashihara, Tairo
Tselis, Nikolaos
Umezawa, Rei
Takahashi, Kana
Inaba, Koji
Ito, Yoshinori
Igaki, Hiroshi
Nakayama, Yuko
Masui, Koji
Yoshida, Ken
Kato, Tomoyasu
Itami, Jun
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (26-A-18 and 26-A-28)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K19836)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2017
Accepted: 1 March 2019
First Online: 12 March 2019
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective study was also approved by the Institutional Review Board of our hospital, the Ethics Committee of National Cancer Center Hospital, (approval number is 2015–359) according to the ethical standards laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was taken from all the participants included in this study before treatment.
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