About the Authors

Xiang-Bo Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-Bo Wan, Yan Zhao, Xin-Juan Fan, Hong-Min Cai

Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yan Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-Bo Wan, Yan Zhao, Xin-Juan Fan, Hong-Min Cai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Xin-Juan Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-Bo Wan, Yan Zhao, Xin-Juan Fan, Hong-Min Cai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Gastrointestinal Institute, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Hong-Min Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-Bo Wan, Yan Zhao, Xin-Juan Fan, Hong-Min Cai

Affiliation School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Ming-Yuan Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Jie Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Xiang-Yuan Wu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Hong-Bo Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kingmed Diagnostic Company, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yi-Xin Zeng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Ming-Huang Hong

hmingh@mail.sysu.edu.cn (MHH); liuq9@mail.sysu.edu.cn (QL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, Clinical Trials Center and Institute of Drug Clinical Trials, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Quentin Liu

hmingh@mail.sysu.edu.cn (MHH); liuq9@mail.sysu.edu.cn (QL)

Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XBW XJF MHH QL Y. Zhao. Performed the experiments: XBW XJF MYC Y. Zhang JX XYW. Analyzed the data: HMC XBW XJF QL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YXZ MHH QL HBL. Wrote the paper: XBW QL HMC.