About the Authors

Hongxin Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxin Cao, Guanghui Wang

Affiliation Institute of Oncology, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Guanghui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxin Cao, Guanghui Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Long Meng

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Hongchang Shen

Affiliation Institute of Oncology, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Zhen Feng

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Qi Liu

Affiliation Institute of Oncology, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Jiajun Du

dujiajun@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliations Institute of Oncology, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC JD HS. Performed the experiments: HC GW LM. Analyzed the data: HC LM ZF GW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL. Wrote the paper: HC JD.