About the Authors

Junichi Sakamoto

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

jsakamoto@tochigi-cc.jp

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

Heita Ozawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Heita Ozawa, Hiroki Nakanishi, Shin Fujita

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

Hiroki Nakanishi

Contributed equally to this work with: Heita Ozawa, Hiroki Nakanishi, Shin Fujita

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

Shin Fujita

Contributed equally to this work with: Heita Ozawa, Hiroki Nakanishi, Shin Fujita

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.