About the Authors

Yao Liang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

liang.yao@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Osamu Maeda

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Chiaki Kondo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kazuki Nishida

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yuichi Ando

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Yuichi Ando reports research funds and personal fees from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., research funds from BeiGene. Ltd and Geo Holdings Corporation, and personal fees from Bayer Holding Ltd. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.