Ishihara, Mikiya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7581-2615
Kageyama, Shinichi
Miyahara, Yoshihiro
Ishikawa, Takeshi
Ueda, Shugo
Soga, Norihito
Naota, Hiroaki
Mukai, Katsumi
Harada, Naozumi
Ikeda, Hiroaki
Shiku, Hiroshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mie University
Article History
Received: 25 February 2020
Accepted: 22 June 2020
First Online: 29 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures involving human participants performed in this study were conducted in accordance with the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects and with the Declaration of Helsinki. The ethics committee of clinical research at Mie University Hospital reviewed and approved the protocol, informed consent documents and their amendments before their use (2007–2013 approval number: 817, 2014–2018 approval number: 2704, and UMIN number: 14008). Written informed consent for participation and for the use of tumour samples for research and publication was obtained from all patients included in this study.
: Not applicable.
: S. Kageyama and H. Shiku received research funding from Takara Bio Inc. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.