About the Authors

Jian-Hua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Hua Wang, Xiu-Ting Chen, Zhe-Sheng Wen

wangjh296@163.com

Affiliation Department of Chest, Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Xiu-Ting Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Hua Wang, Xiu-Ting Chen, Zhe-Sheng Wen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Zhe-Sheng Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Hua Wang, Xiu-Ting Chen, Zhe-Sheng Wen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, Department of Chest, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Min Zheng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, Department of Gynecology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Jian-Ming Deng

Affiliation Department of Chest, Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Ming-Zhi Wang

Affiliation Department of Chest, Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Huan-Xin Lin

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Kun Chen

Affiliation Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Jun Li

Affiliation Biochemical Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Jing-Ping Yun

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Rong-Zhen Luo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Li-Bing Song

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHW ZSW LBS. Performed the experiments: XTC ZSW. Analyzed the data: JHW XTC MZ JMD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMD MZW HXL KC JL. Wrote the paper: JHW MZ XTC. Pathological review: JPY RZL.