Kuriyama, Naohisa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9668-0500
Usui, Masanobu
Gyoten, Kazuaki
Hayasaki, Aoi
Fujii, Takehiro
Iizawa, Yusuke
Kato, Hiroyuki
Murata, Yasuhiro
Tanemura, Akihiro
Kishiwada, Masashi
Sakurai, Hiroyuki
Mizuno, Shugo
Isaji, Shuji
Article History
Received: 10 March 2020
Accepted: 23 April 2020
First Online: 11 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: They all gave their written informed consent for inclusion in the study. All patients were warned of the risks of treatment, especially concerning the possibility of developing distant metastases after NAC. The study protocol was approved by the medical ethics committee of Mie University Hospital (ID2954, UMIN ID: 000030980), and the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards established in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors have nothing to disclose on competing interests.