Oyama, Rieko
Kito, Fusako
Takahashi, Mami
Hattori, Emi
Noguchi, Rei
Takai, Yoko
Sakumoto, Marimu
Qiao, Zhiwei
Toki, Shunichi
Sugawara, Masato
Tanzawa, Yoshikazu
Kobayashi, Eisuke
Nakatani, Fumihiko
Iwata, Shintaro
Yoshida, Akihiko
Kawai, Akira
Kondo, Tadashi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6405-7792
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund (26-A-3, 26-A-9, 29-A-2)
Article History
Received: 15 August 2019
Accepted: 29 January 2020
First Online: 19 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethical committee of the National Cancer Center, and all patients in this study provided written informed consent (2004-050). The study using animal models was approved by the ethics committee of the National Cancer Center Research Institute (T13-016).
: All patients in this study agreed to the use of their clinical specimens for the medical research, and publication of the results.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The funders had no role in the design of the study, collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.