Kawakami, Takeshi
Tsushima, Takahiro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3551-7504
Omae, Katsuhiro
Ogawa, Hirofumi
Shirasu, Hiromichi
Kito, Yosuke
Yoshida, Yukio
Hamauchi, Satoshi
Todaka, Akiko
Machida, Nozomu
Yokota, Tomoya
Yamazaki, Kentaro
Fukutomi, Akira
Onozawa, Yusuke
Yasui, Hirofumi
Article History
Received: 16 April 2018
Accepted: 8 May 2018
First Online: 18 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Shizuoka Cancer Center (SCC) (IRB code: 27-J104–27-1). Approval for the review of hospital records was obtained from the SCC IRB and the patients’ informed consent was obtained through opt-out methodology given the retrospective nature of the study.
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