About the Authors

Shinichiro Kashiwagi

spqv9ke9@view.ocn.ne.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yuka Asano

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuka Asano, Masaichi Ohira

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Wataru Goto

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Koji Takada

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Katsuyuki Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Satoru Noda

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tsutomu Takashima

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Naoyoshi Onoda

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Shuhei Tomita

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masahiko Ohsawa

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Pathology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Kosei Hirakawa

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masaichi Ohira

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuka Asano, Masaichi Ohira

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SK. Data curation: YA WG K. Takada K. Takahashi. Formal analysis: SN TT NO. Funding acquisition: KH M. Ohira. Investigation: ST M. Oshawa. Methodology: SK. Project administration: SK. Resources: SK. Software: SK. Supervision: SK. Validation: SK. Visualization: SK. Writing – original draft: YA WG K. Takada K. Takahashi. Writing – review & editing: KH M. Ohira.