Kikuchi-Koike, Ryoko
Nagasaka, Kazunori http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0696-5175
Tsuda, Hitoshi
Ishii, Yasuyuki
Sakamoto, Masaru
Kikuchi, Yoshihiro
Fukui, Shiho
Miyagawa, Yuko
Hiraike, Haruko
Kobayashi, Takayuki
Kinoshita, Takayuki
Kanai, Yae
Shibata, Tatsuhiro
Imoto, Issei
Inazawa, Johji
Matsubara, Osamu
Ayabe, Takuya
Article History
Received: 14 January 2019
Accepted: 21 May 2019
First Online: 30 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed under the approval of the ethics committee of the medical faculty at the National Cancer Center and National Defense Medical College and with written informed consent. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients for the research use of their samples, and the collection and use of tissues for this study were approved by the Human Genome, Gene Analysis Research Ethics Committee at the National Cancer Center and National Defense Medical College.
: Not applicable.
: Yasuyuki Ishii is an employee of Fujifilm Corporation.; Johji Inazawa plays a technical advisory role for BML, INC.; Ryoko Kikuchi-Koike, Kazunori Nagasaka, Hitoshi Tsuda, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Shiho Fukui, Yuko Miyagawa, Haruko Hiraike, Takayuki Kobayashi, Takayuki Kinoshita, Yae Kanai, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Issei Imoto, Masaru Sakamoto and Osamu Matsubara have no conflicts of interest to declare.