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Clinical impact of surveillance for head and neck cancer in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Hiroyuki Morimoto, Tomonori Yano, Yusuke Yoda, Yasuhiro Oono, Hiroaki Ikematsu, Ryuichi Hayashi, Atsushi Ohtsu, Kazuhiro Kaneko
Hiroyuki Morimoto, Tomonori Yano, Yusuke Yoda, Yasuhiro Oono, Hiroaki Ikematsu, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8577, Japan
Hiroyuki Morimoto, Atsushi Ohtsu, Course of Advanced Clinical Research of Cancer, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8577, Japan
Ryuichi Hayashi, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8577, Japan
Atsushi Ohtsu, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8577, Japan
Kazuhiro Kaneko, Division of Science and Technology for Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8577, Japan
Author contributions: Morimoto H and Yano T contributed equally to this work; Morimoto H and Yano T designed the research; Morimoto H, Yano T, Yoda Y, Oono Y, Ikematsu H and Kaneko K acquired data and performed the research; Morimoto H, Yano T and Kaneko K wrote the draft; Hayashi R and Ohtsu A supervised the report.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by National Cancer Center Institutional Review Board (2012-331).
Informed consent statement: All study participated patients provided written informed consent before enrollment and any intervention and examination in this study. For full disclosure, the details of the study are published on the home page of National Cancer Center.
Conflict-of-interest statement: We have no financial relationships to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Tomonori Yano, MD, Chief, Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwanoha 6-5-1, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8577, Japan. toyano@east.ncc.go.jp
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Received: September 13, 2016
Peer-review started: September 16, 2016
First decision: October 28, 2016
Revised: November 24, 2016
Accepted: January 18, 2017
Article in press: January 18, 2017
Published online: February 14, 2017
