About the Authors

Min-Bin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Min-Bin Chen, Ya-Qun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kunshan First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan, People’s Republic of China

Ya-Qun Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Min-Bin Chen, Ya-Qun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China

Jun-Ying Xu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Wuxi People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi City, People’s Republic of China

Li-Qiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kunshan First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan, People’s Republic of China

Chao-Ying Liu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Wuxi People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi City, People’s Republic of China

Zhang-Yi Ji

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Kunshan First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan, People’s Republic of China

Pei-Hua Lu

lphty1_1@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Wuxi People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi City, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-BC Y-QZ P-HL. Performed the experiments: M-BC J-YX L-QW C-YL. Analyzed the data: M-BC Y-QZ P-HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-QZ J-YX L-QW. Wrote the paper: M-BC Y-Q Z. Helped edit the manuscript C-YL Z-YJ.