About the Authors

Akiko Iguchi-Manaka

Affiliations Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Genki Okumura

Affiliation Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroshi Kojima

Affiliations Ibaraki Clinical Education and Training Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan, Department of Clinical Oncology, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Kasama, Japan

Yukiko Cho

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Kasama, Japan

Rei Hirochika

Affiliation Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroko Bando

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Toyomi Sato

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Current address: Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Kasama, 309–1793, Japan

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Hisato Hara

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Akira Shibuya

Affiliations Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, AMED-CREST, AMED, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuko Shibuya

kazukos@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AIM AS KS. Performed the experiments: AIM GO RH. Analyzed the data: AIM AS KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AIM GO HK YC RH HB TS HY HH AS KS. Wrote the paper: AIM AS KS.