About the Authors

Dazhi Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dazhi Xu, Ying Huang

zhanyq@sysucc.org.cn (YZ); xudzh@sysucc.org.cn (DX)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Ying Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dazhi Xu, Ying Huang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Radiotherapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Qirong Geng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Hematology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Yuanxiang Guan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Yuanfang Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Wei Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Shuqiang Yuan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Xiaowei Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Yingbo Chen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Wei Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Zhiwei Zhou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Youqing Zhan

zhanyq@sysucc.org.cn (YZ); xudzh@sysucc.org.cn (DX)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX YZ. Performed the experiments: YH QG. Analyzed the data: YH QG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG WW SY YL YC XS WL ZZ. Wrote the paper: DX YH QG.