About the Authors

Xu-Chen Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xu-Chen Cao, Wei-Ran Zhang

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Wei-Ran Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xu-Chen Cao, Wei-Ran Zhang

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Wen-Feng Cao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Bo-Wen Liu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Fei Zhang

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Hong-Meng Zhao

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Ran Meng

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Lin Zhang

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Rui-Fang Niu

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Xi-Shan Hao

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Bin Zhang

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Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC WZ WC BL FZ HZ RM LZ RN XH BZ. Performed the experiments: XC WZ WC BL FZ HZ RM LZ RN XH BZ. Analyzed the data: XC WZ WC BL FZ HZ RM LZ RN XH BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC WZ WC BL FZ HZ RM LZ RN XH BZ. Wrote the paper: XC BZ.