Tanaka, Kazuhiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5138-8952
Mizusawa, Junki
Naka, Norifumi
Kawai, Akira
Katagiri, Hirohisa
Hiruma, Toru
Matsumoto, Yoshihiro
Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki
Nakayama, Robert
Hatano, Hiroshi
Emori, Makoto
Watanuki, Munenori
Yoshida, Yukihiro
Okamoto, Takeshi
Abe, Satoshi
Asanuma, Kunihiro
Yokoyama, Ryohei
Hiraga, Hiroaki
Yonemoto, Tsukasa
Morii, Takeshi
Ae, Keisuke
Nagano, Akihito
Yoshikawa, Hideki
Fukuda, Haruhiko
Ozaki, Toshifumi
Iwamoto, Yukihide
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund (29-A-3)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP18ck0106336)
Article History
Received: 27 May 2019
Accepted: 30 August 2019
First Online: 6 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Protocol Review Committee of JCOG, and was also approved by the Institutional Review Boards of each of the 27 participating institutions (Additional file : Table S1). All patients provided written informed consent before entry into the study.
: All patients provided written informed consent for publication before entry into the study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.