About the Authors

Takanori Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

tak@snh.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Breast Cancer, National Hospital Organization Sendai Medical Center, Sendai, Japan

Hiroshi Yagata

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Yagata, Mitsue Saito, Hiroko Okada, Hirohisa Imai, Kojiro Shimozuma

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Breast care, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan

Mitsue Saito

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Yagata, Mitsue Saito, Hiroko Okada, Hirohisa Imai, Kojiro Shimozuma

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroko Okada

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Yagata, Mitsue Saito, Hiroko Okada, Hirohisa Imai, Kojiro Shimozuma

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Health Communication, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tamiko Yajima

Roles Conceptualization

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation EP-CRSU.Co.,Ltd. Clinical research promotion department, Tokyo, Japan

Nao Tamai

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoko Takayama

Roles Supervision

Affiliation National Cancer Center, Center for Cancer Control and Information Services, Cancer Information Service Division, Tokyo, Japan

Hirohisa Imai

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Yagata, Mitsue Saito, Hiroko Okada, Hirohisa Imai, Kojiro Shimozuma

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical community healthcare, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Keiko Nozawa

Roles Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Cancer Center Hospital Appearance Support Center, Tokyo, Japan

Takafumi Sangai

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Akiyo Yoshimura

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Aichi Cancer Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Yoshie Hasegawa

Roles Resources

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

Takuhiro Yamaguchi

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Kojiro Shimozuma

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Yagata, Mitsue Saito, Hiroko Okada, Hirohisa Imai, Kojiro Shimozuma

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

Yasuo Ohashi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Integrated Science and Engineering for Sustainable Society, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.