Hoshino, Isamu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-1752
Nabeya, Yoshihiro
Takiguchi, Nobuhiro
Gunji, Hisashi
Ishige, Fumitaka
Iwatate, Yosuke
Kuwajima, Akiko
Shiratori, Fumiaki
Okada, Rei
Shimada, Hideaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (JP16K10520)
JSPS KAKENHI (JP15K10117)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2020
Accepted: 28 September 2020
First Online: 17 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Chiba Cancer Center (no. 21–26) and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Written consent was obtained from all patients.
: Not applicable.
: Hideaki Shimada received research grants and technical lecture fees from the Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Japan. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest in association with the present study.