About the Authors

Peiliang Geng

Contributed equally to this work with: Peiliang Geng, Jianjun Li

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Jianjun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Peiliang Geng, Jianjun Li

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Juanjuan Ou

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Ganfeng Xie

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Ning Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Lisha Xiang

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Rina Sa

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Chen Liu

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Hongtao Li

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Houjie Liang

lianghoujie@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG JL NW. Performed the experiments: JO GX LX. Analyzed the data: RS CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Li. Wrote the paper: H. Liang.