About the Authors

Koji Sugano

Current Address: Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo Tokyo Koto Geriatric Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Toru Okuyama

okuyama@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Shinsuke Iida

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Hirokazu Komatsu

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Takashi Ishida

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Shigeru Kusumoto

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Megumi Uchida

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Tomohiro Nakaguchi

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Yosuke Kubota

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Yoshinori Ito

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Kazuhisa Takahashi

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuo Akechi

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS TO SI KT TA. Performed the experiments: KS TO SI HK TI SK MU TN YK YI. Analyzed the data: KS TO SI HK TI SK MU TN YK YI KT TA. Wrote the paper: KS TO SI HK TI SK MU TN YK YI KT TA.