Takekuma, Munetaka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0807-1845
Takahashi, Fumiaki
Mabuchi, Seiji
Kudaka, Wataru
Horie, Koji
Ikeda, Mariko
Shikama, Ayumi
Mitsuhashi, Akira
Nagao, Shoji
Suzuki, Shiro
Mizuno, Mika
Nishio, Shin
Tokunaga, Hideki
Ota, Yukinobu
Kasamatsu, Takahiro
Kitagawa, Ryo
Toita, Takafumi
Kobayashi, Hiroaki
Ishikawa, Mitsuya
Yaegashi, Nobuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Developement (JP18ck0106222 and JPP19ck0106513)
National Cancer Center Research and Developement Fund (29-A-3)
Article History
Received: 26 July 2020
Accepted: 20 November 2020
First Online: 30 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics and publication of this study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Shizuoka Cancer Center (Shizuoka, Japan) on December 10, 2015 (approval no.: T27–37–27-1-3). The board waived the requirement for informed written consent due to the anonymous nature of the data and the fact that this research presented no risk of exposure to the subjects.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.