About the Authors

Hai-bo Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-bo Qiu, Li-yi Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Division of Surgical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Li-yi Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-bo Qiu, Li-yi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Chao Ren

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

Zhao-lei Zeng

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

Wen-jing Wu

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

Hui-yan Luo

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

Zhi-wei Zhou

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

Rui-hua Xu

xurh@sysucc.org.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHX. Performed the experiments: HQ LZ. Analyzed the data: CR ZLZ WJW ZWZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYL. Wrote the paper: HQ LZ CR ZLZ WJW HYL ZWZ RHX.