About the Authors

Shuang Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Shen, Xin Qiu, Guodong Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Key Laboratory of Early Prevention and Treatment for Regional High Frequency Tumor, Ministry of Education, Nanning, China

Xin Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Shen, Xin Qiu, Guodong Yang

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Key Laboratory of Early Prevention and Treatment for Regional High Frequency Tumor, Ministry of Education, Nanning, China, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Guodong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Shen, Xin Qiu, Guodong Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Key Laboratory of Early Prevention and Treatment for Regional High Frequency Tumor, Ministry of Education, Nanning, China

Yi Peng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Key Laboratory of Early Prevention and Treatment for Regional High Frequency Tumor, Ministry of Education, Nanning, China

Haojie Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Changde Hospital (The First People’s Hospital of Changde), Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changde, China

Jindu Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China

Jiayin Qin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Oncology School, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Huijie Tang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Basic Medical School, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Huaiyue Liang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Basic Medical School, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Wenyang Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Basic Medical School, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Hai Huang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Affiliated Wuming Hospital, Nanning, China

Ze Su

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

xiangbangde@gxmu.edu.cn (BX); suzesai@163.com (ZS)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Bangde Xiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

xiangbangde@gxmu.edu.cn (BX); suzesai@163.com (ZS)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China, Key Laboratory of Early Prevention and Treatment for Regional High Frequency Tumor, Ministry of Education, Nanning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.