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Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Lower Gastrointestinal, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hyogo Medical University, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• ² Department of Biostatistics, Hyogo Medical University, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• ³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Hyogo Medical University, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, and Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁵ Department of Colorectal Surgery, National Cancer Centre Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Division of Molecular and Diagnostic Pathology, Niigata University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Yokohama City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Ohkubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.