About the Authors

Yutaka Okagawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yutaka Okagawa, Kohichi Takada

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Kohichi Takada

Contributed equally to this work with: Yutaka Okagawa, Kohichi Takada

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yohei Arihara

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Shohei Kikuchi

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Takahiro Osuga

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Hajime Nakamura

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yusuke Kamihara

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Naotaka Hayasaka

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Makoto Usami

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Kazuyuki Murase

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Koji Miyanishi

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Masayoshi Kobune

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Junji Kato

jkato@sapmed.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JK. Data curation: YO. Formal analysis: YO KT YA HN MU K. Mutase K. Miyanishi MK. Investigation: YO KT YA SK TO YK NH MU. Methodology: YO KT SK TO YK JK. Project administration: KT JK. Resources: YO KT YA. Supervision: KT. Writing – original draft: KT. Writing – review & editing: JK.