About the Authors

Hiroki Harada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Kei Hosoda

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiromitsu Moriya

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroaki Mieno

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Akira Ema

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Hideki Ushiku

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Marie Washio

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Nobuyuki Nishizawa

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Satoru Ishii

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuko Yokota

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Yoko Tanaka

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Takeshi Kaida

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Takafumi Soeno

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshimasa Kosaka

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Masahiko Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Keishi Yamashita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

keishi23@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, Division of Advanced Surgical Oncology, Department of Research and Development Center for New Medical Frontiers, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.