About the Authors

Yoshie Hasegawa

vo-irene.yoshie@nifty.com

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Hirosaki Municipal Hospital, Aomori, Japan

Hirokazu Tanino

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Jun Horiguchi

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Gunma, Japan

Daishu Miura

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Ishikawa

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan

Mitsuhiro Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

Shintaro Takao

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Hyogo Cancer Center, Hyogo, Japan

Seung Jin Kim

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Kazuhiko Yamagami

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Shinko Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

Masaru Miyashita

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Konan Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

Muneharu Konishi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

Yasushi Shigeoka

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Yodogawa Christian Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Masato Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan

Tetsuya Taguchi

Affiliation Department of Endocrine & Breast Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Tomoyuki Kubota

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Kamiiida Daiichi General Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Kouhei Akazawa

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata

Norio Kohno

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Kobe Kaisei Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

The JONIE Study Group

Membership of the JONIE Study is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK. Performed the experiments: YH HT JH DM TI MH ST SJK KY MM MK YS MS TT TK KA NK. Analyzed the data: KA NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA NK. Wrote the paper: YH HT KA.