About the Authors

Yasuhiro Kidera

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuhiro Kidera, Hisato Kawakami

Affiliations Division of Pharmacotherapy, Kinki University Faculty of Pharmacy, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, Japan, Department of Pharmacy, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Hisato Kawakami

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuhiro Kidera, Hisato Kawakami

kawakami_h@dotd.med.kindai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Tsutomu Sakiyama

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Kunio Okamoto

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Kaoru Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Masayuki Takeda

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Hiroyasu Kaneda

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Shin-ichi Nishina

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Junji Tsurutani

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Kimiko Fujiwara

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Morihiro Nomura

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Yuzuru Yamazoe

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Yasutaka Chiba

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Clinical Research Center, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Shozo Nishida

Affiliation Division of Pharmacotherapy, Kinki University Faculty of Pharmacy, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Takao Tamura

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Kazuhiko Nakagawa

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H. Kawakami. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Kawakami YC. Wrote the paper: YK H. Kawakami JT YC. Collected the data: YK. Contributed study materials or patients: YK H. Kawakami TS KO KT MT S. Nishina JT KF MN YY S. Nishida TT KN. Analyzed and interpreted the data: YK H. Kawakami YC. Administrative support: S. Nishida TT KN. Contributed in critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: YK H. Kawakami TS KO KT MT H. Kaneda S. Nishina JT KF MN YY YC S. Nishida TT KN.