Clinical significance of soluble programmed cell death-1 and soluble programmed cell death-ligand 1 in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

• Tetsuro Tominaga,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Akiyoshi ,

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

  * E-mail: takashi.akiyoshi@jfcr.or.jp

  Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-1412

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• Noriko Yamamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Pathology, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Senzo Taguchi,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Seiichi Mori,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cancer Precision Medicine Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshiya Nagasaki,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yosuke Fukunaga,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6397-0907

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• Masashi Ueno

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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