About the Authors

Su-Mei Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Su-Mei Cao, Zhiwei Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Trial Study Center, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zhiwei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Su-Mei Cao, Zhiwei Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Trial Study Center, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei-Hua Jia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Qi-Hong Huang

Affiliation Sihui Cancer Institute, Sihui, China

Qing Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Trial Study Center, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiang Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Teng-Bo Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Trial Study Center, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Weimin Ye

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ming-Huang Hong

hongmh@sysucc.org.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Trial Study Center, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S-MC ZL Q-HH T-BH M-HH. Analyzed the data: S-MC ZL QL WY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S-MC ZL W-HJ Q-HH QL XG WY. Wrote the paper: S-MC ZL W-HJ QL WY M-HH. In charge of physical examination of patients: XG.