About the Authors

Liu Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liu Yang, San-Jian Yu, Qi Hong

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, shanghai, China

San-Jian Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liu Yang, San-Jian Yu, Qi Hong

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, shanghai, China

Qi Hong

Contributed equally to this work with: Liu Yang, San-Jian Yu, Qi Hong

Affiliations Department of Breast Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, shanghai, China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Yu Yang

Affiliation School of basic medical sciences, Chengdu University of traditional Chinese medicine, Chengdu, P.R. China

Zhi-Ming Shao

zhimingshao@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Breast Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, shanghai, China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY SJY. Performed the experiments: LY SJY. Analyzed the data: LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QH YY ZMS. Wrote the paper: LY SJY. Obtained permission for patients' tissue samples: ZMS.