∗Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
†Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
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TH, TA, EH, HF, and TN made substantial contribution to conception and design. TH, TA, EH, HF, TN, SI, KK, and YS were contributed to the acquisition of data. TH, TA, EH, MI, and IO performed analysis and contributed to interpretation of data. TH, TA, EH, MI, and IO participated in drafting article and HF, TN, SI, KK, and YS made substantial contribution to revising manuscript. All authors approved the final version of manuscript.
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